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Wonder what a GenAI poster based on a description of Fyre Festival looks like...
A Hieronymus Bosch style panorama of performative sexual favours being exchanged for sustenance in a Mad Max landscape. Mind you, that depends entirely upon which description is input.
I can see tickets for a festival with that poster selling well...
People are saying it’s a con by a fraudster but I get the sense that the organiser is potentially on the spectrum or otherwise at a disadvantage
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Fraudsters never had any problems doing that in the pre-generative AI era.
It makes it easier now, that doesn't mean it was impossible before.
i cant find the link but maybe in the guardian, a similar scam regarding christmas fair / santa grotto was funny to read.
Why blame the ai when in fact it was poorly executed obviously with insufficient budget?
I don't see that they're blaming GenAI, rather saying that AI now allows fraudsters to easily generate impressive-looking but completely fictitious marketing which then persuades people to spend thousands on tickets. Without that, he wouldn't have sold many tickets. "The use of AI, both in marketing imagery and writing, appears to be a recurring theme of Billy Coull's recent business endeavours."
I don't think the fraudster is in any way more impressive than more traditional scams like the Nigerian prince.
i cant find the link but maybe in the guardian, a similar scam regarding christmas fair / santa grotto was funny to read.
This happened to be an egregiously-bad example of these cheap, padded-out, pop-up shows that are everywhere. Anything that isn't run by a major museum or gallery is highly suspect in my book. I recall a Tutankhamun show that I think had National Geographic's name slapped on it, somewhere in London Docklands, that was fairly lame, but nothing compared to the lameness of a Tutankhamun show going on in Hamburg right now…
Few people are asking why such a large proportion of the public are easily scammed, a status which is different to prior eras. The answer isn't education, fyi.
I yet have to find a non-overhyped and eventually disappointing event in the UK, to be honest. The only thing you can be certain of, is that you’ll pay a lot.
Also we're extremely gullible and will throw good money at anything, so why would a business person put any effort in?