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AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

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Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

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post #21

She got the money from a divorce. What comes easy goes easy. I feel bad for the ex-husband.

> She got the money from a divorce. What comes easy goes easy. I feel bad for the ex-husband. Do you know the full story? Maybe the couple worked together to make a larger amount and then split it upon divorce. Making judgements like this is a problem IMO.

Making endless excuses to deny women agency and accountability is a far larger problem IMO

Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

#132
post #2

It 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.

In English we have "shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations".

Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

#133
post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> As someone who is actually friends with Brad Pitt on Facebook and have given him money Are you telling us you fell for the same pig butchering scam?

I thought my over-the-top response made it clear it was satire and a comment on the absurdity of someone thinking they're "actually friends with Brad Pitt and he needs my money"

Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

#134
post #50
post #6

Summary: 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.

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…

Also all the pictures are bad photoshopped images, that I've seen, no AI images.

Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

#135
post #50

Earlier 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…

How why would anybody give money to Brad Pitt? Dude's rich enough already.

That’s the whole point. Of course he’s rich, there’s just this thing with the bank right now, but this other bill is due immediately, so he just needs a loan, but don’t worry, he’ll pay you back, I mean he’s Brad Pitt, everyone knows he’s loaded, it’s not like some bum asking you for change…

Re: AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

#136
post #8

Lol 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

Scam could have been done with Photoshop.

Meh. The only thing to make AI interesting was IF some box in a university basement decided to scam a rando with BrandPit while sorting email traffic.

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