I absolutely approve.
I would do it, too, if I could get over the squick of even dealing with them in the first place.
Crime seems so easy
To think I’m here, working my ass off and still broke, when I could be swimming in “These pills will grow your dick by 3 inches” money
Gotta love how genai’s main use is scamming people. Revolutionary tech just like crypto, which totally superseded banking and isn’t running on a pyramid of grifts.
Entrepreneurship in action, right MAGAs? Buyer beware and all that.
The reason he’s a “scammer” is his lack of connection. Put him in a corporation or in government and he’d just be on task to increase profits.
There’s a guy in the whitehouse in the us that does this, and they call him ‘mr president’. At least to his face, at any rate.
Most of those people probably bought Trump coins with their savings too
They’re all still waiting for their Tr*mp phones to arrive from Ghina.
this reminds me of this one black guy that scammed 30k from the maga crowed. i saw his tiktok about it.
The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)
Pretty much sums up the whole political timeline we live in.
Damn I need to start scamming MAGAs. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to start a new career in the scamming industry?
One that looks pretty promising is the “5G blocker” market. There already are some that are basically a USB powered LED in a housing to make it look like a flash drive.
You can differentiate your “product” by giving it a Tacticool look and/or name. Slap a plastic housing on that with an urban camo print and call it “The 5G Afflictor” or something, and you can probably get some money from some morons.
If you use careful wording, you can keep it totally factual, too. It may not block 5G signals, but everyone that buys one does suffer no further ill effects from 5G, for example.
I’ll sell you my how-to guide for £99.99
Okay, send me the login details for your checking account and I’ll post the money directly to your account.
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Password same, thanks.
Affirm their biases with the face of a pretty young blonde woman
If you find something and go “nobody could possibly fall for that!” then you’ve found your MAGA grift.
Everything you need to know is in the article.
You could run for office as a republican, they have teams of support people that will coach and help you hone your craft.
Shopify commercials tell me they’re all I need to make a business.
I used to work in web development and I cannot tell you how much I detest Shopify and its incredibly outdated scripting language. It’s an awful product to work with. Customers used to come in with their Shopify site which they now outgrown and wanted it upgraded, and it was always easier and therefore cheaper to just throw the entire mess away and start again from scratch.
So seriously if you want to do well in business don’t start with a Shopify site, just get something custom from the start, it’ll end up cheaper in the long run.
I should have put the /s in there but hopefully your advice finds someone that needs it!
find something to do that puts something positive into the world instead?
I bet he could do more with that attitude and a big sack of idiots’ money than with the attitude alone. There’s also a certain poetry in undermining their efforts with their own money.
Harder to monetize unfortunately.
yeah but you don’t end up scamming senile old ladies who chose the wrong political party 60 years ago and have no idea what republicans have been doing the last fifteen years or really any of what has happened the last fifteen years but really don’t deserve to be made homeless for the crime of getting dementia.
60 years ago was the height of the Civil Rights movement. If those people chose Republican then, I have no sympathy for them now.
People who don’t even try to stay informed help maintain an America where it’s possible to be made homeless for the “crime of getting dementia”. Being bankrupted by medical debt isn’t normal in most other countries. The American right wing’s willful ignorance is bad for the entire planet. Countless individuals suffer because of their laziness and greed.
We owe them nothing.
That makes sense though. There is a strong correlation between education and tendency towards liberal attitudes.
More intelligent people are more likely to be exposed to more worldviews and therefore more likely to be more accommodating of other worldviews. Whereas people who were educated in schools that don’t make a huge distinction between religion and science tend to assume they know more about the world when they actually do, therefore they are more likely to believe the lies right-wing grifters.
It’s also why MAGAs are so obsessed with wearing their baseball caps, they’re so dumb they treat politics as a sport.
This is has always been the glaring issue with pure democracies.
That’s why constitutional republics were created. It’s supposed to be a counter to the negative side of democracy. The constitution is supposed to be continuously updated and refined with the changing needs of the Republic.
FYI the last constitutional amendment to the U.S. was in 1992. That is 34 years ago. Unless something changes radically in the next few years, historians will refer to that date as when the U.S. Constitution died.
Actually, the last time the Constitution was amended was in 2020 when Virginia became the 38th state to pass the Equal Rights amendment. But, of course, conservative ciquanery kept it off.
ciquanery
ciquanery
I tried googling it!
The constitution is supposed to be continuously updated and refined with the changing needs of the Republic.
These is a fairly daft bit about everyone having guns that needs removing. You can get on that.
That law was added when guns were so imprecise it was difficult to hit the broadside of a barn from inside the barn. It wasn’t designed for guns with fire rates in excess of one round every 5 minutes. Back then if somebody went on a shooting spree you could just walk up to them and punch them while they were in the middle of reloading.
Exactly, bullets weren’t even invented yet when they wrote the Constitution, but “conservatives” believe all these modern weapons are exactly what the founding fathers wanted to protect.
Own a musket for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. “What the devil?” As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball-sized hole through the first man, he’s dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it’s smoothbore and nails the neighbor’s dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grapeshot, “Tally ho lads” the grapeshot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
Those ne’erdowells won’t be after your doubloons again, that’s for sure. Good show!
A feddit.uk account winging about Americans having too many guns? You planning something lobsterback? (This is a joke btw)
Well given the fact that the US navy don’t appear to be able to secure a narrow stretch of water maybe we’d have a chance.
Although given the fact that the prize would be the United States perhaps it’s not worth it.
I can assure you it is not worth it. In fact, can I come live in your country? I’ll buy the first round at the pub
Unfortunately the article is paywalled. Are there any pictures in the article I want to see how realistic the AI girl is because most AI images are pretty obvious so I want to see how dumb these dumb men are.
There you go (article in spanish) https://www.sinembargo.mx/4794809/joven-crea-influencer-con-ia-y-gana-miles-de-dolares-enganando-seguidores-maga/
Oh it’s her. This isn’t a new story this has been around for ages.
I love the one of her in the military uniform, her name plate literally says US ARMY, how dumb are these guys?
Was that the one where “she” had 3 boobs?
Not a one. I am disappoint.
They grifted the grifters!!!
Really they grifted the grifted. They are the suckers buying into the scam, not the beneficiaries.
Given what I assume is a typo, I don’t know which way to take what you wrote. On the one hand, I agree they grifted the grifted. On the other hand, they could potentially be considered gifted. Gifted enough to understand that using AI this way could allow them to grift people
probeprone to being grifted. Of course. If I take it that way I have to assume the second “gifted” is meant in a derogatory way to call them dumb.I thought about this way too much.
Yes that was a typo thank you.
The individuals exploited by this attack had already been influenced by prior messaging that relied on fear, misinformation, and manipulative tactics. This made them more vulnerable to being targeted again by unrelated scammers who look for the same types of susceptible individuals.
In this situation, the people affected are not directly attempting to deceive anyone themselves — they are victims of two separate schemes that both exploit the same vulnerabilities.
I don’t feel sympathy for them, because the hostility and resentment they embraced played a major role in making them vulnerable to this situation. Their own engagement with harmful narratives set the stage for how they ended up being exploited.
Lately, he says he’s noticed that “pro-Nazi, pro-Hitler content” has been getting especially high engagement on platforms like Reels, speculating that an AI hot girl Nazi influencer “would blow up. It would just break all the records.” (When asked about this claim, a Meta spokesperson said, “We prohibit content that glorifies, supports, or represents Nazism, and we remove it when we find it.”)
lmao, they remove it when they find it, they’re not actively looking for it. In fact, I bet they’re actively trying to avoid ways to take it down.
Every “debate” “free speech” group on Facebook eventually devolved to a Nazi hangout and kicked me out for being too left wing. Everything left wing group got sucked.
It’s a shithole unfortunately
Pearl Jam saw the fucking thing coming.
It would be a pretty easy thing to write a bot to search this stuff.
You could start off with the keyword search. It would be interesting to watch these guys try and come up with pseudonyms. What’s their version of unalive?
lmao, they remove it when they *find* it, they’re not actively looking for it. In fact, I bet they’re actively trying to avoid ways to take it down.
Yeah, I don’t use IG but my wife has reported explicitly nazi glorification content before but because the account would say “for historical purposes only”, they just say they didn’t find anything wrong with the posts. Fuck Meta
To Meta’s credit, however, emily_hart.nurse’s life on Instagram was relatively brief. In February, Emily’s account was officially banned after Instagram flagged it for “fraudulent” activity, though her Facebook account is still active.
Another piece of circumstantial evidence that Meta is just ugh.
Cause they were scamming Nazis, if it would have been an account scamming old people they would have kept it.
Blind people are the only ones left that should consider doing image moderation for meta. The rest of their former workforce is too traumatized. No audio though please, that shit is gross.
I’ve reported a lot of obvious (but not overt) neonazi content on meta and it almost never gets taken down. Maaaaybe 5% on the high end. It has to be extremely overt to register. Obvious dog whistles like “the Austrian leader was right,” using emojis like 👃, or 🧃 to make hate speech against Jews, 🐵 for African Americans, etc. slides right by.
respect
I should come up with a “scam MAGA” business model. Damn ethics…
One could argue removing financial power from people who would use it to harm those around them is the ethical choice. Obviously, it would be more beneficial to scam the wealthy, but scamming those who give to the wealthy that would harm others could be framed as pre-empting that gift.
If I’m using an AI to scam Nazis is that still ethical, or is the AI usage still problematic?
Using an unethical tool to steal from people enabling the creation and use of an unethical tool is, in my opinion, acceptable. Can’t be afraid to use the enemies’ tools against them
Something about the last capitalist selling the rope that hangs him or whatever.
Tell ya what. I’LL do all the shady stuff. You just provide the capitol. Just give me $50 million dollars, and I’ll scam the idiots FOR you!
Money please! Money me now!
Give me money. Money me. Money now. Me a money, needing a lot now
Trump already does it successfully
Milton Friedman’s grandson did something similar 10 years ago by scamming libertarians that wanted in on “ocean cities”
Congrats, young man, to having found a good way to do the world a service, all while making a fortune.
Every cent those idiots spend on fake girls can’t be spent in GOP donation jars.
The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)
Anything to separate conservatives from their money so they can’t use it to support fascism.
They’re already religious, it’s a short hop from there
I laughed so fucking hard at this quote. It’s perfect.
