The reason he’s a “scammer” is his lack of connection. Put him in a corporation or in government and he’d just be on task to increase profits.
Most of those people probably bought Trump coins with their savings too
this reminds me of this one black guy that scammed 30k from the maga crowed. i saw his tiktok about it.
Unfortunately the article is paywalled. Are there any pictures in the article I want to see how realistic the AI girl is because most AI images are pretty obvious so I want to see how dumb these dumb men are.
There you go (article in spanish) https://www.sinembargo.mx/4794809/joven-crea-influencer-con-ia-y-gana-miles-de-dolares-enganando-seguidores-maga/
Seems to be the same article from Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/indian-med-student-rakes-in-thousands-with-ai-generated-maga-hottie/
Not a one. I am disappoint.
respect
They grifted the grifters!!!
Really they grifted the grifted. They are the suckers buying into the scam, not the beneficiaries.
Given what I assume is a typo, I don’t know which way to take what you wrote. On the one hand, I agree they grifted the grifted. On the other hand, they could potentially be considered gifted. Gifted enough to understand that using AI this way could allow them to grift people
probeprone to being grifted. Of course. If I take it that way I have to assume the second “gifted” is meant in a derogatory way to call them dumb.I thought about this way too much.
Yes that was a typo thank you.
The individuals exploited by this attack had already been influenced by prior messaging that relied on fear, misinformation, and manipulative tactics. This made them more vulnerable to being targeted again by unrelated scammers who look for the same types of susceptible individuals.
In this situation, the people affected are not directly attempting to deceive anyone themselves — they are victims of two separate schemes that both exploit the same vulnerabilities.
I don’t feel sympathy for them, because the hostility and resentment they embraced played a major role in making them vulnerable to this situation. Their own engagement with harmful narratives set the stage for how they ended up being exploited.
The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)
Pretty much sums up the whole political timeline we live in.
Damn I need to start scamming MAGAs. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to start a new career in the scamming industry?
If you find something and go “nobody could possibly fall for that!” then you’ve found your MAGA grift.
You could run for office as a republican, they have teams of support people that will coach and help you hone your craft.
Everything you need to know is in the article.
find something to do that puts something positive into the world instead?
Harder to monetize unfortunately.
yeah but you don’t end up scamming senile old ladies who chose the wrong political party 60 years ago and have no idea what republicans have been doing the last fifteen years or really any of what has happened the last fifteen years but really don’t deserve to be made homeless for the crime of getting dementia.
People who don’t even try to stay informed help maintain an America where it’s possible to be made homeless for the “crime of getting dementia”. Being bankrupted by medical debt isn’t normal in most other countries. The American right wing’s willful ignorance is bad for the entire planet. Countless individuals suffer because of their laziness and greed.
We owe them nothing.
Shopify commercials tell me they’re all I need to make a business.
I used to work in web development and I cannot tell you how much I detest Shopify and its incredibly outdated scripting language. It’s an awful product to work with. Customers used to come in with their Shopify site which they now outgrown and wanted it upgraded, and it was always easier and therefore cheaper to just throw the entire mess away and start again from scratch.
So seriously if you want to do well in business don’t start with a Shopify site, just get something custom from the start, it’ll end up cheaper in the long run.
I should have put the /s in there but hopefully your advice finds someone that needs it!
That makes sense though. There is a strong correlation between education and tendency towards liberal attitudes.
More intelligent people are more likely to be exposed to more worldviews and therefore more likely to be more accommodating of other worldviews. Whereas people who were educated in schools that don’t make a huge distinction between religion and science tend to assume they know more about the world when they actually do, therefore they are more likely to believe the lies right-wing grifters.
It’s also why MAGAs are so obsessed with wearing their baseball caps, they’re so dumb they treat politics as a sport.
This is has always been the glaring issue with pure democracies.
That’s why constitutional republics were created. It’s supposed to be a counter to the negative side of democracy. The constitution is supposed to be continuously updated and refined with the changing needs of the Republic.
FYI the last constitutional amendment to the U.S. was in 1992. That is 34 years ago. Unless something changes radically in the next few years, historians will refer to that date as when the U.S. Constitution died.
Actually, the last time the Constitution was amended was in 2020 when Virginia became the 38th state to pass the Equal Rights amendment. But, of course, conservative ciquanery kept it off.
ciquanery
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I tried googling it!
The constitution is supposed to be continuously updated and refined with the changing needs of the Republic.
Does a fairly daft bit about everyone having guns that needs removing. You can get on that.
That law was added when guns were so imprecise it was difficult to hit the broadside of a barn from inside the barn. It wasn’t designed for guns with fire rates in excess of one round every 5 minutes. Back then if somebody went on a shooting spree you could just walk up to them and punch them while they were in the middle of reloading.
Own a musket for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. “What the devil?” As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball-sized hole through the first man, he’s dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it’s smoothbore and nails the neighbor’s dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grapeshot, “Tally ho lads” the grapeshot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
Lately, he says he’s noticed that “pro-Nazi, pro-Hitler content” has been getting especially high engagement on platforms like Reels, speculating that an AI hot girl Nazi influencer “would blow up. It would just break all the records.” (When asked about this claim, a Meta spokesperson said, “We prohibit content that glorifies, supports, or represents Nazism, and we remove it when we find it.”)
lmao, they remove it when they find it, they’re not actively looking for it. In fact, I bet they’re actively trying to avoid ways to take it down.
Every “debate” “free speech” group on Facebook eventually devolved to a Nazi hangout and kicked me out for being too left wing. Everything left wing group got sucked.
It’s a shithole unfortunately
Pearl Jam saw the fucking thing coming.
It would be a pretty easy thing to write a bot to search this stuff.
You could start off with the keyword search. It would be interesting to watch these guys try and come up with pseudonyms. What’s their version of unalive?
lmao, they remove it when they *find* it, they’re not actively looking for it. In fact, I bet they’re actively trying to avoid ways to take it down.
Yeah, I don’t use IG but my wife has reported explicitly nazi glorification content before but because the account would say “for historical purposes only”, they just say they didn’t find anything wrong with the posts. Fuck Meta
I’ve reported a lot of obvious (but not overt) neonazi content on meta and it almost never gets taken down. Maaaaybe 5% on the high end. It has to be extremely overt to register. Obvious dog whistles like “the Austrian leader was right,” using emojis like 👃, or 🧃 to make hate speech against Jews, 🐵 for African Americans, etc. slides right by.
Blind people are the only ones left that should consider doing image moderation for meta. The rest of their former workforce is too traumatized. No audio though please, that shit is gross.
Hey, they’d have to pay a person in the third world $5 a year to do that, do you think they’re made of money?
Young Entrepreneur.
Congrats, young man, to having found a good way to do the world a service, all while making a fortune.
Every cent those idiots spend on fake girls can’t be spent in GOP donation jars.
I should come up with a “scam MAGA” business model. Damn ethics…
One could argue removing financial power from people who would use it to harm those around them is the ethical choice. Obviously, it would be more beneficial to scam the wealthy, but scamming those who give to the wealthy that would harm others could be framed as pre-empting that gift.
If I’m using an AI to scam Nazis is that still ethical, or is the AI usage still problematic?
Using an unethical tool to steal from people enabling the creation and use of an unethical tool is, in my opinion, acceptable. Can’t be afraid to use the enemies’ tools against them
Something about the last capitalist selling the rope that hangs him or whatever.
Tell ya what. I’LL do all the shady stuff. You just provide the capitol. Just give me $50 million dollars, and I’ll scam the idiots FOR you!
Money please! Money me now!
Give me money. Money me. Money now. Me a money, needing a lot now
Trump already does it successfully
Milton Friedman’s grandson did something similar 10 years ago by scamming libertarians that wanted in on “ocean cities”
The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)
Anything to separate conservatives from their money so they can’t use it to support fascism.
They’re already religious, it’s a short hop from there
I laughed so fucking hard at this quote. It’s perfect.
On one hand, I can enjoy the schadenfreude.
On the other hand, this kind of thing helps to create and maintain the alt-right alternate universe mediasphere. I remember a story coming out of Ukraine where a bunch of guys were making fake ‘news’ sites loaded with advertising to spam ragebait articles for cash. They said that they made way more money by posting right wing content so that’s what they focused on.
Multiply that by a bunch of people and add in adversarial nation’s influence campaigns and you get Donald Trump.
I agree somewhat but it’s not like they were bringing newcomers into the cause, this account was posting rage bait for already entrenched MAGAts, the more time they spend inside staring at fake boobs the less time they’ll spend shooting people
They can do both, you know. They love nothing more than cringe content and “righteous” violence.
Hey! I wasn’t grifted and I’m super dumb. What’s going on?!
Stupid audience and rage bait content makes social media push your stuff.