And it'll happen to you, too!
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2026
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100 likes, or even 1000 comments does not establish litterally anything about any demographic.
Boomers think supernatural creatures control our fate. Why would we expect them to be capable of determining fiction from reality?
I mean most of the influencer bullshit is artificial engagement anyway. People playing a role to entertain, gain attention, make money. If you look at porn comments, they are all dumb so it wouldn't surprise me that the boomers leaving comments are similarly dumb "roleplaying", knowing that this is just a fantasy sharing between gooners. They might simply not care if it's real or not.
Personally I don't get it, but whatever.
Yes but AI is taking jobs away from real live sex workers. Won't anyone think about them.
ok now this makes me feel bad about my ai use
Are we sure all these boomers leaving comments aren’t also bots on Facebook?
They might be there to get the thirst traps traction to get out on all the old creeper’s algorithms in the first place.
A trick Reddit was pioneering all the way back in the late '00s. Drive engagement by using bots to fake engagement.
AI/bots creating content. AI/bots leaving comments.
Wait I’ve heard about this… 😟
Facebook is bots ONLY. So none of this matters.
in a sense.. I know some people like this
Me too, more than one.
Well, in a way most of the AI hype (like that you can easily replace office workers with chatbots or that software developers will become 10x more efficient and consequently you can fire 90% of your workforce) are a thirst trap for CEOs.
A bit like selling candy with crack on the schoolground of a primary school....
Not even CEOs, you can see various (at some point failed due to low quality high expenses workforce, that can now be replaced with AI, you get the idea) entrepreneurs and non-techies on Facebook write long excited posts about Claude.
About a computer program and a dataset running completely outside their control and scrutiny. Like white colonizers selling rifles to natives, but not machinery to make those rifles. Or ammunition, but not machinery to produce it. Or colored glass, but not technical processes to make said colored glass.
CEOs are right to be excited, they might be able to afford the real thing - self-hosted and with the accompanying processes, like healthy datasets, experienced people, nuances of adjusting models, stuff like that.
But people who are being shown that they can be replaced sufficiently well by a machine, that has another little trait of being completely adjustable - that I can't understand.
Someone interested in humanitarian sciences and art being excited that there's a machine parroting them well enough to replace them, except that machine can also be made to produce those things to fascist ends, - I don't understand that.
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From what I understand, that stuff now has to be clearly labelled as AI in the EU. Hopefully that will help a bit to reduce the mess.
How the hell will this be enforced
Either by a government agency or by gunpoint
Or billions dollar fines
A tiny back office with half a dozen industry plants will be told to produce one high profile case every six to twelve months.
HAHAHAHAHA
No, it won't
They've been doing it long before AI images too. Most photoshops got them too.
so much that there is even a sub for "isthisAI, thirstrap" posts.
Fucking duh. They also can't tell they are being gaslit by bots on all their stupid conservative pages. Boomers are fucking stupid.
Plenty of the young generation are dumb as fuck as well. Trump didn't win just by getting the boomer vote.
Plenty of morons out there from all walks of life.
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I have never understood the need to comment on porn of any kind.
I commented on one porn post here on Lemmy where the person was trying to look way too young. I commented in a reply to another comment that was saying it's kind of disgusting and wrong, because the intent is clear that they were trying to at least appear like a child. It doesn't really matter if they're actually of-age. It's like anime with the thousand year old dragon gir thing. If you're trying to create something erotic/pornographic while appearing like a child, that content doesn't need to exist.
That is I think the only time I've posted on porn.
You probably also guessed that the stripper isn't actually attracted to you.
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At some point you have to stop blaming the algorithm: If you’re posting »good morning beautiful« under an image where the hands have six fingers and the background melts into itself, the problem isn’t cutting edge AI. Basic digital literacy is part of living online, regardless of your age.
I went through a few of those videos. Could not notice any artifact. If I had to evaluate myself I'd say it is actresses.
Really not easy to say those videos are made by AI.
Let's back up. If you're posting "good morning beautiful" to ANYONE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW, you're probably a piece of shit. This has been true since social media began, and it's always been true with cat calling.
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Back in 2023, we reported on AI-generated influencers that were pulling thousands of reactions per thirst trap on Instagram.
Anything but the metric system!
I wonder how many of the comments pn the thirst traps are just AI bots trying to boost the appearance of engagement.
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