• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    26 days ago

    This is the part that people have to see the most:

    The algorithm also favors controversial views, making politically polarizing content more successful. This was Sam’s experience in running Emily’s account, which he characterized as “rage bait.” Even though liberals would flock to the page to leave irate comments, they were still clicking. “It’s a win-win situation, because you’re getting engagement anyway, and your content will go viral,” he says.

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      Pretty much every form of content these days is engagement bait. As it turns out, the only things advertisers care to clutch their pearls over in the modern age is sex and drugs. The only concern otherwise is getting as many eyes on it as possible, and nothing gets attention quite like outrage.

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      24 days ago

      well this is the consequence of a platform not having a downvote button. people think that having a downvote button causes controversies because now people can be angry at other people, but actually it allows people to downvote bad content to remove it from the algorithm without having to click + write a comment.

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      25 days ago

      I guess this is what people mean when they say there is no such thing as bad publicity!

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    26 days ago

    Funny that the people making such a big deal about “real women” can never tell the difference between a real one and an AI one.

    • Sarah@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      Yeah because women are too old for MAGA men. They could probably tell you if a child’s image was real or not though.

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    NOT True! MAGA are KNOWN to Do Their Own Research TM so if this was TRULY AI they would have KNOWN! She’s REAL! I DO my Own Research TM!

  • Tempus Fugit@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Right-wing chuds jacking it to fake AI slop girls will never not be funny to me. Keep fighting that white genocide tech bros. Elon has taught you well.

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      Generate a hot, AI, blonde, white, large breasted woman

      Make social media accounts and generate a bunch more pics, preferably of her wearing bikinis or other revealing clothing

      Make posts pretending to be this AI girl. Make them controversial. Enough to outrage people, but not so much people can tell its a grift. This is the real secret imo

      Farm engagement from outraged people commenting so it rises in the algorithm and gets shown to right wingers. Who will see the negative comments and instinctively comment defending your views. Boosting engagement even more.

      Next make up some story about needing money for medical bills or becoming a hot lady doctor or something like that and set up a gofundme.

      Wait for braindead conservatives to throw their money at you

      If you want something a bit more tricky but longer term, set up an OnlyFans too. Otherwise I think that’s all the steps.

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      26 days ago

      Cyberpunk literature has a few templates to follow. “Johnny Mnemonic” refers to “Christian White and his Aryan Reggae Band”.

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    25 days ago

    IMHO what’s interesting is that the platforms benefit from it because their metric is engagement.

    Consequently this scammer, med student or not, is generating traffic and transactions through the platforms he used. Those platforms grow and keep their user base, can sell more ads, etc. Some platforms might ban this kind of practice but barely enforce their own rules, others might precisely exist because they don’t have such rules.

    So what’s fundamental here is the dynamic, how engaging content, fake or not, controversial or not, dangerous or not, does keep on being promoted to more people because it does make sense for the platforms.

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    24 days ago

    if the pictures were at least well done, but bruh it’s depressing as shit to look at. no idea, no vision, if a photographer took these pictures i would fire them for having bad taste.

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    Huh, I saw this article in Wired this morning. Some people in the comments were calling the article clickbait. Some said it sounded too convenient. But, I dunno, it does seem like rage bait, trolling, engagement bait, run the internet now. Hence my exit from social media a while ago. To the smøl web!

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    Yay? Making money generating more bs and ragebait. Like those stories about kids having bake sales for dad’s cancer treatment.