• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    15 hours 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.

  • zabadoh@ani.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    127
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    Female MAGA influencers tend to do well on such platforms for a few reasons. They’re a relative rarity in the MAGA movement: Unlike their Gen Z male counterparts, 18- to 29-year-old women overwhelmingly skew liberal. Young MAGA women are therefore “more attention-grabbing,” Wirtschafter says, citing the uproar over the likely AI-generated “Swifties for Trump” photo Trump posted on TruthSocial during the 2024 campaign as one example.

    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.” ((AI-generated MAGA girl creator Indian male med student) 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.”)

    The palpable contempt that the AI-MAGA girl creator felt for his customers…

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      29
      ·
      2 days ago

      Pretty sure that’s how >99% of female content creators feel about >90% of their male audience in general

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        edit-2
        14 hours ago

        Yes and no. It’s usually not outright contempt like in this article. Pity, sometimes, but usually not outright contempt. Usually they try to avoid having any strong feelings about the men, positive or negative. Because staying disengaged with the men helps them maintain some professional distance and separate their work from their life.

        Source: Dated a cam girl for a while, {insert obligatory “it’s not dating if you’re paying her” joke here}, and am friends with several others. The clients that were the hardest for my ex to stay detached from were the dudes who clearly just wanted a pretty girl to listen to them vent for a few minutes. Lots of the men were clearly just extremely lonely and had nobody in their personal circles to talk to. She always joked that she was cheaper than therapy, and therapists would probably lose their license if they kept her dress code. But that pity made it hard for her to stay detached from those clients.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    103
    ·
    2 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.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      15 hours 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.

    • notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      66
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      This is the exact reason conservative streamers have risen as quickly as they have. It’s all rage-bait engagement farming.

    • Ech@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • Sarah@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

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

  • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    38
    ·
    2 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.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    2 days ago

    conservatives were swooning over an AI generated white girl in uniform. and when you check some of the profile on certain social media like youtube you can see some of them have hordes of AI generated women in thier portfolios.

  • utopiah@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    2 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.

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    2 days ago

    Brb I’m gonna make a bunch of maga dudes pay me to watch me sodomize myself with an AI filter.

    • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      28
      ·
      2 days ago

      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.

  • Tempus Fugit@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    ·
    2 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.

    • zabadoh@ani.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 days ago

      They’re already out there.

      Lately, (AI MAGA girl creator Sam) 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.”)

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      It’s illegal in some cultures to do the Nazi salute.

      Is it also illegal to make an AI girl do a Nazi salute?

        • quick_snail@feddit.nl
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          15 hours ago

          Does that mean it was illegal for the German press to write about Musk’s Nazi salute, if they showed the video?

          • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            6 hours ago

            No, they did show the picture of him doing it, and condemned it - for nazi propaganda they would have to either let it stand uncommented or put it in positive light.

      • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        2 days ago

        It’s never illegal in a culture. Cultures don’t have laws. It is illegal in some countries, but I suspect the answer to your question may not be the same for each of those countries.

    • Xaphanos@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

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

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

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

  • moendopi@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    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!