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Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real (www.404media.co)
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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What strikes me as being utterly pathetic is the people posting this AI-generated shit in order to have people praise "their" work. How empty their lives must be if the only ego-boost they can get is Facebook likes for something they're lying about having made themselves.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My best guess is that they’re being posted by click bait farms to sell ads to people who view their pages… though I don’t know enough about Facebook to know if that would actually be possible.

    I don’t want to believe that hundreds of actual people are independently stealing and making variants on this one artist’s work to get fake internet points…

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I don’t want to believe that hundreds of actual people are independently stealing and making variants on this one artist’s work to get fake internet points…

    The really sad thing is I can believe that there are hundreds of people that are doing this. I have encountered people who straight up stole other artists' work and posted it, claiming they made it, in order to get fake internet points. I used to be a moderator on a site that had very strict rules about art theft - used to issue bans for it at least once a week. I can totally believe there are people on that site now using AI images in order to avoid detection.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    It's definitely for troll farming reasons. Most likely they're using it to create legit-seeming accounts that they can then sell to a troll farm who will use it to influence a product or an election or something. Using AI to slightly vary content that they already know goes viral easily makes finding new content to share much cheaper.

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