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

[Nevilledog]

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-maga-girls/

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https://archive.li/eix4D

LIKE MANY MEDICAL school students, Sam was broke.

The 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India got some money from his parents, but he says he spent most of it subsidizing his licensing exams, and he’s still saving up to hopefully emigrate to the US after graduation. So he started searching for ways to make additional money online.

Sam, who requested a pseudonym to avoid jeopardizing his medical career and immigration status, tried a few things, with varying degrees of legitimacy and success. He made YouTube shorts and sold study notes to other med students. It wasn’t until he started scrolling through his Instagram feed that he landed on an idea: Why not make an AI-generated girl using Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro and sell bikini photos of her online?

But when Sam started posting generic photos of a beautiful, scantily clad woman on Instagram, he was dismayed to find that none of the content was hitting. He turned to Gemini for advice. “If you create a generic ‘hot girl,’ you’re competing with a million other models,” it said, according to a transcript Sam provided to WIRED.

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.”)

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[Stargleamer]

1. This is telling:

From the article: “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.”)

[highplainsdem]

2. K&R. I was just about to post this after finding it on Bluesky.

[Coventina]

3. OMG! The article is mind-blowing!

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Though he did not actively promote Emily’s Fanvue account for fear of alienating her conservative MAGA fan base, Sam says he used Grok AI to generate nude photos of her and uploaded them to the platform, with Emily’s fans sending him payments for exclusive content and exchanging messages. “I was basically doing nothing,“ he says. “And it was just flooded with money.” He says he made a few thousand dollars off the account in a few days, though he did not enjoy the interactive aspects. “Once a guy sent me a video with Emily’s nude on a tablet on a pillow, and he was basically recording himself fucking the pillow,” he says. “It was incredibly weird, but he sent me a $50 tip, so I was like, OK, do what you want.”

Few of the fans cared whether Emily was real, Sam says. This is very much in line with the psychology of the average hot girl MAGA fan, according to Wirtschafter. Whether it's plausible that a sexy blonde nurse would love Christ, ICE, and flashing her boobs for strangers is secondary to the fact that many, many people want to believe it is. “Even among some digital natives, there’s a perspective of, ‘Well, I don’t actually care if this is true. I like the sentiment of it,’” she says.

Even though platforms like Meta ostensibly require AI content to be labeled, it can often escape detection, and accounts like Emily’s continue to proliferate.

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5. I really hope guys like these go to prison

This parasite is right here in India and I am sure it is guys like these who use the ubiquitous lack of regulation to harass women, drive mobbing harassment sitting at some shitty tech co ..that would totally be their mo.

People look at this story and titter along as it is about Maga men and US politics without getting that this guy is the type of little creep who would be a huge nuisance to women locally here. Maga men are over there at the end of the day. They lose money, people here lose sanity thanks to predatory parasites inside and outside the system of this type.
And with all sorts of sad lame social experiments tacked on as a local cottage industry of the trashy V.S.Ramachandran’s Epstein’s “Telepathy in an autistic savant” experiments with Deepak Creep Chopra.

Ffs..

And I am a borderline addict? I hate everyone and everything..

It is people right here that “students” like this and these parasitic, misogynistic grifters in tech harass with the full support of our govt and most institutions.

This is why I am filing criminal misconduct, criminal malpractice and harassment charges about every part of these crimes against humanity forced by this greedy rush for ai.

Decent people here are like Apar Gupta or Hemant Kapanna - the actual local non-maga (well I don’t want to speak for them but I would be shocked if they are Maga).

I am sure this guy is a misogynist as well as scammers are rarely nice people.

But hey he made some Maga guys look silly so he is a hero to non Maga misogynists. That is the degradation of modern politics.

I really hope this entire crowd goes to prison or faces draconian career penalties. I will wait and press charges.

But not like this.
I have some telepathy they can all stick up there ..


I decided to continue to log on exactly once a day as a convoluted way of signaling that the (baby axlotl or baby pangolin) in these creep waters should survive this nightmare while everything else should be aborted the same way women have every right to abort babies, rape and incest or just unwanted.
Pro life my arse…