She got the money from a divorce. What comes easy goes easy. I feel bad for the ex-husband.
AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
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#22Lol this article doesn't even include the best part which were the pictures the scammer was sending. It's like 10 low res photos of Brad Pitt in a hospital bed, I think some of them lifted from movies. I don't even think AI really played an important role here. Edit: Here https://x.com/PopBase/status/1879197931129163782
What's the "best part" of someone with both HIV and cancer who is going through a divorce getting robbed out of every cent to their name and then mocked on the Internet? Yeah, hilarious. Ell oh ell oh ell.
It's possible for things to be both sad and funny from different perspectives. Hope that helps.
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#23It is always shocking to me that someone with those kinds of resources can get duped like that -- with little checks and balances.
My grandpa has a saying that translates to something: "The money bag never hangs in front of the same house for more than three generations". This is just one of the reasons why.
"This" -- do you mean theft and abuse are the reasons why? Or debilitating illness (HIV/Cancer).
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#24Consider that if someone secretly had our modern AI tech 10-15 years ago, they could have easily scammed a lot of people out of money in romance scams. Now consider that the future isn’t equally distributed and some people are literally still living at the level of 10-15 years ago. Wow, there is a lot of opportunity for scammers out there, though the window will be closing every year as the world catches up, and no o…
If you look at the images from this case, they weren't AI. They could have been done in Microsoft Paint.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the "best part" of someone with both HIV and cancer who is going through a divorce getting robbed out of every cent to their name and then mocked on the Internet? Yeah, hilarious. Ell oh ell oh ell.
It's possible for things to be both sad and funny from different perspectives. Hope that helps.
We french are specialists of the tragi-comique
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
From Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/comments/1i1uvjq/scam... French start up Find My Scammer carried out the investigation pro bono as the victim has literally no money left in her account, not even a cent. Victim had no experience whatsoever with social media before creating an Instagram account in 2023 to share holiday pictures. Victim was targeted after liking pictures related to Brad Pitt on Inst…
> Crypto wallet where the stolen money is stored found. All information in the hands of authorities investigating the crime. This is great news, and I hope Anne and the other victims can see at least some of their money returned.
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Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
#27Consider that if someone secretly had our modern AI tech 10-15 years ago, they could have easily scammed a lot of people out of money in romance scams. Now consider that the future isn’t equally distributed and some people are literally still living at the level of 10-15 years ago. Wow, there is a lot of opportunity for scammers out there, though the window will be closing every year as the world catches up, and no o…
Not even scammers.
This is essentially the future of AI models that emulate male sex workers. The "romance scam" is basically what they'll do. Only they will dispense with the Brad Pitt likenesses, because they will have enough information to come up with AI faces and bodies meticulously calculated to maximally interest the, um, "client".
Oh, and they will be legal.
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#28"I understand the comic effect but we're talking about a woman in her 50s who got conned by deepfakes and AI which your parents and grandparents would be incapable to spot," one popular post on X read.
This ignores the fact that her daughter tried to explain it to her for over a year.
To me it seriously raises a question, what should we do with or think about people who deemed capable and are 50+ “YoE” but still unable to real life or a little bit of logic, basically.
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#29I am beginning to doubt my five Instagram girlfriends
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#30Summary: First, criminals preying upon someone apparently vulnerable (after cancer, divorce, and who knows what else). Then, as if that wasn't more than enough for one person, a bunch of Internet people, and even some brand marketers, publicly mocking and harassing the victim.
She is creating a bad buzz to get helped from detectives, lawyers, media, the public etc. The price she pays is being mocked at, yes