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Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals
- mandevil 10mo agoI love the Nicolas Maduro image in particular. That feels like its a parody of this whole genre of ad?
- dreadsword 10mo agoAll the more reason to steer clear of big-brand social media, and protect spaces like this.
- contagiousflow 10mo agoWhat's protecting smaller online spaces from AI?
- MrLeap 10mo agoThe fact it's text only means we only get AI text and not images, I suppose. lmao.
- plastic-enjoyer 10mo agoEssentially, gatekeeping. Places that are hard to access without the knowledge or special software, places that are invite-only, places that need special hardware...
- ninthcat 10mo agoAnother important factor is whether the place is monetizable. Places where you can't make money are less likely to be infested with AI.
- deathsentience 10mo agoOr a place that can influence a captive audience. Bots have been known to play a part in convincing people of one thing over another via the comments section. No direct money to be made there but shifting opinions can lead to sales, eventually. Or prevent sales for your competitors.
- Analemma_ 10mo agoOr places with a terminally uncool reputation. I'm still on Tumblr, and it's actually quite nice these days, mostly because "everyone knows" that Tumblr is passé, so all the clout-chasers, spammers and angry political discoursers abandoned it. It's nice living, under the radar.
- jsheard 10mo agoNothing is bulletproof, but more hands-on moderation tends to be better at making pragmatic judgement calls when someone is being disruptive without breaking the letter of the law, or breaks the rules in ways that take non-trivial effort to prove. That approach can only scale so far though.
- notpachet 10mo agoNot enough financial upside for it to be worth the trouble.
- cush 10mo agoEconomics. Slop will only live where there's enough eyeballs and ad revenue to earn a profit from it
- isjdiwjdiwjd 10mo ago[dead]
- throwaway198846 10mo agoThis space is not protected, anyone can sign up.
- dreadsword 10mo agoModeration that keeps it focused. Text only.
- SoftTalker 10mo agoText only, no ads, and aggressive downmodding of self-promotion. Edit: On the other hand, here we are looking at it and talking about it. Some number of us followed links in that article. Some number of them followed those to an OnlyFans page.
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- giancarlostoro 10mo agoHow long until OnlyFans just says, screw it, we make AI content too.
- zxcvasd 10mo ago>no ads There are ads here all the time. They're just text-based, instead of picture/video-based. "Show HN" is literally only for advertising.
- nicce 10mo agoBeing less known and niche is one kind of protection. Big carrots are missing for most.
- add-sub-mul-div 10mo agoAnother kind of protection is Reddit and Twitter remaining alive as quarantines. Rather than if they collapsed and the newer better places absorbed the refugees.
- expedition32 10mo agoIt would be hilarious if AI enshitified the internet so much that people give up on it.
- _blk 10mo agoNot excusable in any way or form but an explanation lies clearly in the demand for trash news and the Hollywood people cult.
- falloutx 10mo agoWhy is that whenever there is a news about AI, its either a new scam or something vile. Like all this harm being done to environment, people's sanity and lives, just so companies can pay less to their employees. Great work.
- knicholes 10mo agoBecause news about scams or something vile using AI gets you to click and read.
- falloutx 10mo agoAbout all of the good news, once you read a little bit more, are all due to traditional ML and all are in medical imagery field. Then OpenAI tries to take credit and say "Oh look AI is doing that too", which is not true. Go ahead and read deeper on any of those news and you would quickly find LLMs haven't done much good.
- knicholes 10mo agoThey helped me make some damn good brownies and be a better parent in the last month. Maybe I should write a blog for all of the great things LLMs are doing for me. Oh yeah, and one rewrote the 7-minute-workout app for me without the porn ads before and after the workout so I can enjoy working out with one of my kids.
- falloutx 10mo agoWhat makes you think you couldn't have made brownies without LLMs. Go to google and just scroll 20cm and there it is, a recipe, the same one chatGPT gave you. I wont comment on rewriting an app, because LLMs can definitely do that.
- knicholes 10mo agoBecause, "Why are the edges burnt and the middle is too soft? How are these supposed to actually look? I used a clear 8"x8" pan, and I'm in Utah, which is at 4,600 ft elevation" Oh, it's a higher elevation, I need to change the recipe and lower the temperature. Oh, after it looked at the picture, the top is supposed to be crackly and shiny. Now I know what to look for. It's okay if it's a little soft while still in the oven because it'll firm up after taking them out? Great! Another one, "Uh oh, I don't have Dutch-processed baking power. Can I still use the normal stuff for this recipe?" Yeah, Google can answer that, but so can an LLM.
- bofadeez 10mo ago"Defaming celebrities" that's a big concern lol. Let's also make sure billionaires securely obtain maximum luxury next.
- ilhanomar 10mo ago[flagged]
- cynicalsecurity 10mo agoMaybe it's time to stop going hysterical over other people's sex life? Then it won't be a "hot" topic to exploit any more.
- SoftTalker 10mo agoI think most people know that these aren't real. They are just for laughs or titillation and a way to get attention/follower and (ultimately) payers. Celebrity impersonations in advertising are not at all new.
- nonethewiser 10mo agoI think its more a symptom of a culture with bad values. The safeguard against this behavior is people having shame.
- Mordisquitos 10mo agoThere's something about the way terminology used in this article that feels off to me. First of all, I'm not sure it makes sense to refer to these AI-generated characters as AI 'influencers'. Did these characters actually have followers prior to these fake videos being generated in December 2025? Do they even have followers now? I don't know, maybe they did or do, but I get the impression that they are just representing influencer-ish characteristics as part of the scheme. Don't get me wrong, the last thing I want is to gatekeep such an asinine term as 'influencer'. However, just like I would not be an influencer just by posting a video acting like one, neither do AI characters get a free pass at becoming one. Second, there's the way the article is subjectifying the AI-generated characters. I can forgive the headline for impact, but by consistently using 'AI influencers' throughout the article as the subject of these actions, it is not only contributing to the general confusion as to what characters in AI-generated videos actually are, but also subtly removing the very real human beings who are behind this from the equation. See for instance these two sentences from the article, UPPERCASE mine: 1- 'One AI influencer even SHARED an image of HER in bed with Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro' 2- 'Sometimes, these AI influencers STEAL directly from real adult content creators by faceswapping THEMSELVES into their existing videos.' No, there is no her sharing an image of herself in bed with anyone. No, there are no them stealing and faceswapping themselves onto videos of real people. The 'AI influencers' are not real. They are pure fictions, as fictional as the fictinal Nicolás Maduro, Mike Tyson and Dwayne Johnson representations that appear in the videos. The sharing and the faceswapping is being done by real dishonest individuals and organisations out there in the real world.
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- gavmor 10mo agoYou may be surprised to learn that headlines actually lead to an even larger body of text called an "article" which contains, among other things, references to the scale of the issue named named in the headline.
- ahmetomer 10mo agoThe classic "bad thing always existed but AI made it worse" case.
- tunesmith 10mo agocultural problem too... like even before AI in recent years there's been more of a societal push that it's fair game to just lie to people. Not that it didn't always happen, but it's more shameless now. Like... I don't know, just to pick one, actors pretending to be romantically involved for pr of their upcoming movie. That's something that seems way more common than I remember in the past.
- Loughla 10mo agoWhile I agree with you, your example is not a great one.. There are examples of fake relationships between stars dating back to the start of talkies. But I do agree. It is more socially acceptable to just lie, as long as you're trying to make money or win an argument or something. It's out of hand.
- vladms 10mo agoDo you have any data to back that "it is more socially acceptable to lie"? I looked a bit and could not find anything either way. The impression can be a bias of growing up. Adults will generally teach and insist that children tell the truth. As one grows, it is less constrained and can say many "white lies" (low impact lies). We do have more impact for some people (known people, influences, etc.) than before because of network effects.
- frm88 10mo agoThere is this study that claims/proves that dishonesty/lying is socially transmittable and The question of how dishonesty spreads through social networks is relevant to relationships, organizations, and society at large. Individuals may not consider that their own minor lies contribute to a broader culture of dishonesty. [0] the effect of which would be massively amplified if you take into account that Research has found that most people lie, on average, about once or twice per day [1] where the most prolific liars manage upward of 200; you can then imagine that with the rise and prevalence of social media the acceptance/tolerance has also socially transmitted [0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4198136/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4198136/ [1] https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/2021-serota.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/2021-serota.pdf
- TacticalCoder 10mo agoWhen you see what z-image turbo with some added LORA does in mere seconds on a 4090 locally, you know it's a lost fight. And that's not even the best model: just a very good one for something that everybody can run. Not only is the cat out of the bag but this is just the beginning. For example say porn vids where people can change the actress to their favorites celebrity in real-time is imminent. There's no fighting this.
- Teever 10mo agoThis is a technique that will absolutely be used by those reputaiton management companies. I predict that it within three years we'll be discussing a story about how a celebrity hired a company to produce pictures of them doing intimate things with people to head off the imminent release sexual assault allegations.
- knowitnone3 10mo agoI don't see a problem here. These celebrities can now sue and make boatloads of money.