This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men

[Innula Zenovka]

Wired: This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men

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A med student in India was looking for a way to make money online. He hit on selling AI-generated bikini photos of attractive (and imaginary) young women, and asked Gemini for advice on how to make his product stand out from all the other AI-generated bikini photos.

Sam says he presented Gemini with a few possible options to help his model stand out, and the chatbot selected one in particular: the “MAGA/conservative niche,” referring to it as a “cheat code.” Plus, it said, “the conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal.” (A representative for Gemini said, “Gemini is designed not to give a particular opinion unless you tell it to. Instead, it is designed to offer neutral responses that don't favor any political ideology or viewpoint.”)

Though Sam has never lived in the United States, he became an assiduous student of MAGA ideology. “Every day I’d write something pro-Christian, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, anti-abortion, anti-woke, and anti-immigration,” he tells me.

The grift seemed almost too obvious, but to Sam’s astonishment, he says the account “blew up.”

“Every Reel I posted was getting 3 million views, 5 million views, 10 million views. The algorithm loved it.” he claims. Within a month, Emily Hart had more than 10,000 Instagram followers, many of whom also subscribed to her softcore AI-generated content on the OnlyFans competitor Fanvue. And between Fanvue subscriptions and selling MAGA-themed T-shirts (one sample message reads ”PTSD: Pretty Tired of Stupid Democrats”), Sam estimates he was making a few thousand dollars a month.

“I was spending maybe 30 to 50 minutes of my day, and I was making good money for a medical student,” he says. “In India, even in professional jobs, you can't make this amount of money. I haven’t seen any easier way to make money online.”

 

[Free]

Is this her?

Meet Jessica Foster: The viral OnlyFans AI fooling millions of MAGA fans

(I know it's not, but this method of scamming is pretty obvious to a lot of people. What else can one expect from the group who made a grifting flake their god king?)

 

[Noodles]

At least it means money going to some poor dude in India and not sent to one of Trump's stupid scams.

 

[Soen Eber]

Can I invest?