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A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Sometimes the article is “AI avatars in digital blackface want to sell you this belt buckle”, sometimes is “AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk”
Well, you can't be too sure you're using the correct ragebait if you don't do a comparison.
|Can race, guilt, and empathy get you to pay $40 for this $9 belt buckle on TikTok?
Nope.
1/ I don't care what race anyone is. 2/ I have nothing to feel guilty about as far as race is concerned. 3/ Empathy doesn't even make my list when it comes to an ad. 4/ I don't use TikTok.
Empathy doesn’t even make my list when it comes to an ad
Those aren't disclosed as ads. It's scammers pretending to be some vulnerable person crying something like "nobody wants to buy my handmade shit 😭😭 I gonna need to sell my organs to pay the mortgage or my family will be on the streets"
Then you pay $50 for a "handmade" factory-made disposable shit dropshipped from china for $1
Someone asking you to buy something is an obvious ad.
They don't have to be disclosed as an ad for someone to recognize them as an ad.
And yet, many people don't. That's the issue.
You can sell things on tiktok?
You put a link, you could sell stuff on Lemmy in the same way I guess.
Although Tiktok does have digital coins or whatever like twitch
Apparently, like I said I don't use TT
Facebook Shorts is eat up with this shit and the thirsty mouth breathing crackers lap it up. YEYAYA I know I fucking around on Facebook but it is the only place my American Legion post will put anything.
Nearly all aspects of the accounts appear to be AI-generated — from the “person” in the video to automated responses to comments, which in some cases attempt to mimic African American vernacular — and experts warn scams like this are growing every day
Oof
I don't know which is worse: blackface at comedy sketches that punch down at black people with racist stereotypes, or this
There are some clues to spot to determine that this video is AI-generated. Aliyah’s voice is robotic and emotionless, which doesn’t match the crying face on the screen. In one clip, she is sewing a leather belt where there wouldn’t usually be sewing at all. When she wipes a tear off her face, the stream of liquid below where she wipes also disappears.
So, it seems like the key to these grifts is that the human learns how to cleanup AI mistakes in post.
I don't think experts would be able to detect AI content from someone with decent video editing experience
RIP etsy
What does "shein" mean?
It's a Chinese online store that sells junk disguised as fashion items
Edit: article says it's a fast fashion ecommerce website
This is literally no different than an actor or animation portraying a fake character that does not exist in an ad. BuT tHeY aRe PrEyInG oN yOuR eMoTiOnS!!! Yeah, literally all advertisements do.
It's worse because it hurts and already marginalized group by making them less credible
There is a huge difference between fiction-based advertising (Old Spice is a great example of this one :D) and fraudulent advertising, though.
"I am a pirate and this product keeps me smelling fresh (it's a deodorant and it works as advertised)" - fictional character, accurate product representation
"I am a struggling marginalised business owner selling artisanal products (that are actually from Shien, and I'm either a paid actor or AI)" - fake person, fraudulent product representation
don't tell me that Crews flexing his pecs is fiction D:
At least an actor gets paid