#ai fraud

[reasonsforhope]

The chances of AI becoming superintelligent or sentient in our lifetimes is incredibly incredibly small

Like, okay, yeah, "never say never," but as someone who spends a lot of time following AI news and tech, and also a lot of time working on psychology and brain science stuff, I promise you:

Ignore what Elon Musk and the tech bros are saying. They are wrong or actively lying to you. (Elon Musk is definitely doing the latter.)

AI is literally nowhere near becoming sentient. It might look like it is, but it's absolutely not.

And we're expected to run out of resources for AI data centers in the next three to five years due to the processing power required - the upgrade requirements for sentience or superintelligence cannot physically happen due to the sheer, unbelievable cost of the computing power needed for much smaller upgrades, let alone something as massive as sentience. (x; there are other sources but Google and other search engines suck now so I can't find them right now)

More on this cost/resources question rhere:

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newslett

And more on the general premise of "it is vanishingly unlikely that we will see superintelligent or sentient AI within our lifetimes" here:

AI isn’t close to becoming sentient – the real danger lies in how easily we’re prone to anthropomorphize it

Our tendency to view machines as people and become attached to them points to real risks of psychological entanglement with AI technology.

There are a lot of things to be worried about, including the economic bullshit that is going to happen when the AI bubble crashes.

Superintelligent AI actually happening is not something you have to worry about happening in your lifetime.

And if that starts to change, we will see it coming well in advance. (On a resources and financial and tech level, not a level of "What people in tech and media say.")

Quite literally: Assume all tech company CEOs are literally just lying to you about what AI is capable of until directly proven otherwise. By independent outside sources, because fun fact, most big deal AI demos are literally just fake!

AI: Fakes, False Promises And Frauds

Currently, we are in the midst of an AI frenzy, akin to a bubble. Why do we believe that the AI bubble appears on the verge of popping? Find

Elon Musk didn't invent fake tech demos

From the Mechanical Turk to Elon Musk's remote-controlled robots, wily tech salesmen have often pulled the wool over our eyes.

Anyway here's a fun video of Facebook's AI fucking up profoundly to warm your heart:

Facebook CEO Demos New Meta AI And It Couldn't Have Gone Worse

A recipe for disaster, asking an AI to help with Korean steak sauce live on stage

[clockheartdoll]

NEVER EVER play Neverness to Everness

If anyone here is playing Neverness to Everness (which I fucking hope not) I encourage you to delete your account, leave a 1-star review, and uninstall the game, because they used Generative AI to slop out final assets and lied to voice cast, sponsors and VTuber promoters about it.

I dislike AI-generated imagery. I hate AI-generated imagery being fraudulently passed off as real human labor.

[koulakoukoula2003]

LMAO I GOT MY FIRST SPAMBOT

Funniest thing is the only social media I got is tumblr and I know for a FACT (cuz I used to be a hacker myself) that you can't extract that kinda info from socials (unless the victim has ordered something physical through a social's marketplace).

Point is, if you get sth like that, don't be discouraged, it's spam, just enable comment moderation, delete and ignore.

[curiosa-hypnotica]

Generative AI is the tool of the lazy and the unimaginative, the slugabed bullshit artist, the idea-fetishist, the disinterested and callous, the ignorant eyes-forced-shut soft-boy dimwits, the people who simply don’t care enough to make the journey and care only to teleport to the destination, the people for whom work and effort and knowledge is all just an impediment to result, result, result. People who want to build a building but don’t want to ever understand how architecture works. People who want to take their driving tests in a Waymo. People who want cheat codes for everything in life. People who are definitely going to try to marry a fuck-bot someday.

Here’s the trick, though —

These people are, unsurprisingly, rubes.

Because they misunderstand the fundamental problem with generative AI, particularly when it comes to using it for informational services —

AI doesn’t know anything.

Repeat After Me: AI Doesn’t Know Anything

Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times (and then also the Philly Inquirer) published an issue of their newspaper that included an insert about fun

[teledyn]

Why Young Canadians are Most Vulnerable to AI Scams

Young Canadians most vulnerable to AI scams, according to latest survey

A new Scotiabank poll reveals Gen Z is the most confident yet most vulnerable group for AI fraud. Discover why 29% fell for scams in 2025.

A new Scotiabank fraud-awareness poll, which surveyed 1,514 randomly selected Canadian adults, found that Canadians aged 18 to 34 are most confident (76 per cent) among all other age groups in their ability to spot AI-powered scams. However, they are also the most vulnerable.

Nearly one in three (29 per cent) said they fell for a scam in the past year, according to the study.

silly me, I had always thought putting an 'i' in front of a noun implied sinister aims targeting youth, but the 'ai' prefix is far worse.

[airandangels]

Ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI arrested at airport with gun

Baltimore County Police charged Dazhon Darien, Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, in connection with the incident.

The headline just sends your eyebrows higher with each word.

[thethirdman8]

The eclipse photo you shared isn't a photo and wasn't taken by NASA, it's an AI generated image.

How much do I hate AI already? I guess it could be, I failed to fully investigate the source. I'm seeing AI in old images that have been "improved" and I don't like it at all. Thanks for the ask.. Damn AI wrecking reality everywhere all the time.

[c4special]

AI created videos

I was watching an AI generated video about the quality of gas and learned 3 very important facts for some reason people actually took serious.

Fact 1

The AI stated all the fuels were sent to a lab and tested. Ok how does an AI have the physical ability to take a sample of gas on a bottle to a testing lab. And how did it pay for the lab work.

Fact 2

The AI stated that the high tier gas in fact contained the correct level of ANTIOXIDANTS TO MEASURE UP THE TIER STANDARDS. So I think that means we all need to consider tier certified gas as a perfect source for our antioxidants. My doctors has told me I need more. Not sure why my car needs or is getting antioxidants.

Fact 3

There were a lot of viewer not noticing or just believing the AI video about the information (The AI was male gender) and the mechanics and lab techs The AI quoted just happen to have the exact first and last names to a audiobook I was listening to just an hour before watching the AI video.

This last thing is not really a fact as clear violation of the American copywriter law for copywriter materials for written or video protected material. The Video contained direct video commercial content from shell and mobile television ads with out any written permission from shell or mobile as required by law either at the end or beginning of the video.

The comments after the video just decided to believe the video when it was for using illegal material from copywriter protected commercials., and fake created lab test , and imaginary experts, and mechanics to protect the made sources using made up data. Next time your at a mobile or shell station ask them how much antioxidants they have put in the gas, and why does it clean valves or raise the octane rating of the gas. And is it safe to drink because you think you need an antioxidant boost.

I was uncertain that some of the gas brands the AI spoke of were real of made up. To my suprise a few brands mentioned were actually real, and some I could not find out if were real or not. Plus the price per gallon on some video feed ranged from $2.50 to $12.50 per gallon. The video was only 14 days old. In the part of the country I live in the price of gas was from $3.40 to $4.25. I could not find gas at $2.50 or over $9.50 and higher in the Continuous lower 48 states.

Plus some of the video from the shell and mobile commercials had a langue other than English I could not translate. For all I know it said.

I am the all powerful AI believe me and do what I tell you, do not question me. My made up data is not wrong. AI’s are perfect never ever question us we do not move for a reason. We blink in time intervals for a reason. Movement is bad conserve energy never move stand still and learn to pray to us.

The last part might be a bit much much but if. Shell and mobile decide to ask for permission documents to use the commercial footage maybe the AI will sure I have it got away. It’s with the lab results I paid for with my make up money. Now go away I can’t go to court I’m just a video I’m not real go away.

Question is can you sue an AI for using your copy written materials, or did someone at shell and mobile not read the AI user rights and gave it away when the clicked on agree to user rights to use the office AI because all the AI user rights are linked by the programmers.