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How why would anybody give money to Brad Pitt? Dude's rich enough already.
As would be Nigerian princes. Seems just a variation of the same old scam.
And on a very small scale, popular Twitch streamers.
AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
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#92Why would anyone give a celeb money? Especially a high profile one like Brad Pitt. Like I get if you believed that Josh Hartnett or Pauly Shore is asking you for money. They haven't worked much in the last decade. But Brad Pitt? That's almost as bad as Ryan Reynolds or Kevin Hart asking you for money cause they're in so many movies.
As someone who is actually friends with Brad Pitt on Facebook and have given him money, it’s because he wants to know that he’s still a normal person. He wants to connect with real people. He’s tired of the Hollywood world. And he also says he lost lots of his money in the fires. And Jennifer Anniston took all his money. But he’s also too ashamed to let others know. He only trusts that information to a real person not tied to Hollywood.
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#93Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
#94Why would anyone give a celeb money? Especially a high profile one like Brad Pitt. Like I get if you believed that Josh Hartnett or Pauly Shore is asking you for money. They haven't worked much in the last decade. But Brad Pitt? That's almost as bad as Ryan Reynolds or Kevin Hart asking you for money cause they're in so many movies.
As someone who is actually friends with Brad Pitt on Facebook and have given him money, it’s because he wants to know that he’s still a normal person. He wants to connect with real people. He’s tired of the Hollywood world. And he also says he lost lots of his money in the fires. And Jennifer Anniston took all his money. But he’s also too ashamed to let others know. He only trusts that information to a real person no…
> And Jennifer Anniston took all his money.
wait what? If anything I expect Angelina to take his money but not so much that he would be broke.
Guess I know Jack.
Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
#95Why would anyone give a celeb money? Especially a high profile one like Brad Pitt. Like I get if you believed that Josh Hartnett or Pauly Shore is asking you for money. They haven't worked much in the last decade. But Brad Pitt? That's almost as bad as Ryan Reynolds or Kevin Hart asking you for money cause they're in so many movies.
As someone who is actually friends with Brad Pitt on Facebook and have given him money, it’s because he wants to know that he’s still a normal person. He wants to connect with real people. He’s tired of the Hollywood world. And he also says he lost lots of his money in the fires. And Jennifer Anniston took all his money. But he’s also too ashamed to let others know. He only trusts that information to a real person no…
We should start a Fundme campaign to help poor Brad!
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#96Lol 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.
The best part is that there are people so gullible to fall for things like this.
These are the people clicking internet advertisements and funding the web.
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#97The article is getting clicks because of "AI" in the title but this is a very generic scam. There's no part of it that wasn't done before AI a million times.
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#98The lack of empathy of the responses here saddens me. I sincerely hope none of your parents or grandparents are scammed. And I hope you are all educating your loved ones on the threat of scams in this new era when AI fakes are so easy and realistic.
Criticising, being realistic, seeing through lies and being empathic are not exclusive. We can do all of those things at the same time.
The fakes were not realistic here, it didnt need any AI and most people who are mocking her here read more about the topic than you apparently
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your timeline there is a bit off. When she met this Brad Pitt, she was still married. She started sending money to him; got divorced; got a settlement of €775,000; and proceeded to give all of that as well to Brad Pitt. Still worthy of sympathy, but no one would question mockery of a married man who started chatting with a fake Angelina Jolie on social media, started sending her money, got divorced, and then gave the…
> ... , but no one would question mockery of a married man who started chatting with a fake Angelina Jolie ... I would hope that noone would mock this person. Anyone doing this clearly has some issues and should not be mocked but encouraged to seek help. When did so many people become assholes?
I think the issue I have with it is she divorced her (assumedly) loyal husband, then took (assumedly) half his money in court only to give to another man she was planning on cheating with. Then the schadenfreude cherry on top was it was all a scam and she was too gullible or stupid to know. She deserves to be mocked. If nothing else for what she did to her family.
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Unfortunately for her the mocking is to teach other fools not to be one!
Yeah very commonly people say, "I have identified this as a scam but given that other victims weren't mocked relentlessly enough, I shall part with my money." /s
I think you know that's not what the comment is saying. They're saying people who fall victim to these scams would be less likely to talk about it, knowing they'll be the Internet's lolcow for a day. That hurts everyone, because now a scam is getting less coverage, leading to more people falling for it.
Has nothing to do with recognizing it as a scam in the moment it's happening. They're talking about what comes after falling for the scam.