#fakepeople — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fakepeople, aggregated by home.social.
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Florida Trib: The rise and fall of an AI-driven ‘local news outlet’ in South Florida. “The search to find out who was behind the mysterious South Florida Standard, which The Florida Trib undertook in partnership with the media and tech podcast Question Everything, also shows how easy it is for the real people behind these digital doppelgangers to remain in the shadows – evidence of the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/florida-trib-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-ai-driven-local-news-outlet-in-south-florida/ -
Florida Trib: The rise and fall of an AI-driven ‘local news outlet’ in South Florida. “The search to find out who was behind the mysterious South Florida Standard, which The Florida Trib undertook in partnership with the media and tech podcast Question Everything, also shows how easy it is for the real people behind these digital doppelgangers to remain in the shadows – evidence of the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/florida-trib-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-ai-driven-local-news-outlet-in-south-florida/ -
Florida Trib: The rise and fall of an AI-driven ‘local news outlet’ in South Florida. “The search to find out who was behind the mysterious South Florida Standard, which The Florida Trib undertook in partnership with the media and tech podcast Question Everything, also shows how easy it is for the real people behind these digital doppelgangers to remain in the shadows – evidence of the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/florida-trib-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-ai-driven-local-news-outlet-in-south-florida/ -
Florida Trib: The rise and fall of an AI-driven ‘local news outlet’ in South Florida. “The search to find out who was behind the mysterious South Florida Standard, which The Florida Trib undertook in partnership with the media and tech podcast Question Everything, also shows how easy it is for the real people behind these digital doppelgangers to remain in the shadows – evidence of the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/florida-trib-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-ai-driven-local-news-outlet-in-south-florida/ -
Florida Trib: The rise and fall of an AI-driven ‘local news outlet’ in South Florida. “The search to find out who was behind the mysterious South Florida Standard, which The Florida Trib undertook in partnership with the media and tech podcast Question Everything, also shows how easy it is for the real people behind these digital doppelgangers to remain in the shadows – evidence of the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/15/florida-trib-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-ai-driven-local-news-outlet-in-south-florida/ -
Business Today: Who is Emily Hart? How an Indian medical student fooled ‘dumb’ MAGA fans with AI. “Meet “Emily Hart.” To her millions of fans, she was a gun-loving, beer-drinking nurse who looked like Jennifer Lawrence and loved ‘Christ is King.’ But in reality, she was the creation of ‘Sam,’ a 22-year-old orthopaedic surgeon in training in India. According to a Wired report, Sam (name changed) […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/22/business-today-who-is-emily-hart-how-an-indian-medical-student-fooled-dumb-maga-fans-with-ai/ -
New York Times: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media. This link goes to a gift article. “In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace about the ‘radical left’ and ‘America First.’ They tend to appear as ordinary — if very good-looking — men and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/19/new-york-times-hundreds-of-fake-pro-trump-avatars-emerge-on-social-media/ -
New York Times: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media. This link goes to a gift article. “In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace about the ‘radical left’ and ‘America First.’ They tend to appear as ordinary — if very good-looking — men and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/19/new-york-times-hundreds-of-fake-pro-trump-avatars-emerge-on-social-media/ -
New York Times: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media. This link goes to a gift article. “In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace about the ‘radical left’ and ‘America First.’ They tend to appear as ordinary — if very good-looking — men and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/19/new-york-times-hundreds-of-fake-pro-trump-avatars-emerge-on-social-media/ -
New York Times: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media. This link goes to a gift article. “In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace about the ‘radical left’ and ‘America First.’ They tend to appear as ordinary — if very good-looking — men and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/19/new-york-times-hundreds-of-fake-pro-trump-avatars-emerge-on-social-media/ -
New York Times: Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media. This link goes to a gift article. “In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace about the ‘radical left’ and ‘America First.’ They tend to appear as ordinary — if very good-looking — men and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/19/new-york-times-hundreds-of-fake-pro-trump-avatars-emerge-on-social-media/ -
Reuters: China moves to regulate digital humans, bans addictive services for children. “The Cyberspace Administration of China’s proposed rules would require prominent ‘digital human’ labels on all virtual human content and prohibit digital humans from providing ‘virtual intimate relationships’ to those under 18, according to rules published for public comment until May 6.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/03/reuters-china-moves-to-regulate-digital-humans-bans-addictive-services-for-children/ -
Washington Post: Thousands have swooned over this MAGA dream girl. She’s made with AI. This link goes to a MSN-syndicated version of the article (no paywall). “[Jessica] Foster’s viral takeoff highlights an increasingly prevalent strategy for winning online attention. A slew of right-wing accounts, peddling patriotism mixed with soft-core pornography, use fake women and convincing imagery […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/21/washington-post-thousands-have-swooned-over-this-maga-dream-girl-shes-made-with-ai/ -
Techdirt: 37,000 Fake AI Comments Mysteriously Oppose Washington State’s Effort To Tax The Rich. ” Washington State has been exploring the RADICAL SOCIALIST ANTIFA EXTREMIST idea of having the state’s rich actually pay their taxes. That’s not been received particularly well by the extraction class, which has been making empty promises about leaving the state. Recently the state opened up […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/13/techdirt-37000-fake-ai-comments-mysteriously-oppose-washington-states-effort-to-tax-the-rich/ -
Mashable: Scammers are increasingly posing as loved ones, survey suggests. “Phone number verification tool ClarityCheck just conducted a survey of around 1,900 adults in the U.S., UK, and European Union, and found that 64 percent of respondents have encountered a suspicious message or call that seemed to come from someone they knew.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/13/mashable-scammers-are-increasingly-posing-as-loved-ones-survey-suggests/ -
PressGazette: Faces of fakery: More fake and AI generated experts con their way into media. “Out of a sample of 250 expert-quoting articles published in The Sun, Daily Express, Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Star in 2025 and late 2024, 25 experts do not exist, are impossible to track down/verify online or were not named in the first place.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/12/faces-of-fakery-more-fake-and-ai-generated-experts-con-their-way-into-media-pressgazette/ -
Canary Media: Are faked public comments about to tank an Ohio solar farm?. “Ohio is poised to block a major solar farm because of local pushback — even though a substantial number of public comments opposing the installation appear to be fabricated.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/06/canary-media-are-faked-public-comments-about-to-tank-an-ohio-solar-farm/ -
The Guardian: Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media. “Political leaders could soon launch swarms of human-imitating AI agents to reshape public opinion in a way that threatens to undermine democracy, a high profile group of experts in AI and online misinformation has warned.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/25/the-guardian-experts-warn-of-threat-to-democracy-from-ai-bot-swarms-infesting-social-media/ -
New-to-me, from University of Cambridge: Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms. “For the first time, the Cambridge Online Trust and Safety Index (COTSI) allows the global community to monitor real-time market data for the ‘online manipulation economy’: the SIM farms that mass-produce fake accounts for scammers and social bots. These markets openly sell SMS message […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/10/university-of-cambridge-price-of-a-bot-army-revealed-across-hundreds-of-online-platforms/ -
Radio Prague International: Russian propaganda spreading on Czech TikTok ahead of elections. “The Center for Online Risk Research, an initiative led by IT experts, has drawn attention to the activity of fake accounts on TikTok in Czechia. Their analysis revealed nearly three hundred interconnected accounts that artificially boost their reach to millions of views per week by sharing and […]
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NPR: This TikTok video is fake, but every word was taken from a real creator. “Ali Palmer, a creator in Dallas who posts on TikTok as @aliunfiltered_, made a video — about a father who jumped off a Disney cruise ship to save his child — that was ripped off using her exact words for a video made with AI.”
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University of Portsmouth: Research reveals how fake social media accounts could be the cause of serious security breaches. “New research led by the University of Portsmouth has found that fake social media profiles, particularly LinkedIn accounts, are a leading cause of security breaches among professionals.”
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Engadget: Amazon is testing AI-generated hosts that talk customers through product features . “Amazon is testing a new feature that involves AI-generated hosts talking through product summaries. It looks fairly similar to Google’s audio overviews, which also include AI-generated hosts that seem plucked from a middling podcast.”
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Lifehacker: What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Fake Jasmine Crockett Videos. “The real Crockett is sharp, confrontational, and isn’t afraid to curse people out. AI-Jasmine Crockett is a folk hero who spends her life STUNNING, DESTROYING, and OBLITERATING various talk show hosts, actors, and political opponents. She took on Bill Maher, humiliated Seth Meyers, made Ellen DeGeneres regret […]
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Tubefilter: 20 years of YouTube: In 2006, Lonelygirl15 taught us that nothing is real on the internet. “In 2025, Bree is remembered as a harbinger of all the fake internet stuff that came after her. It’s now far more common for individuals to adopt constructed on-screen personalities, and ersatz content has become so widespread that some digital philosophers now espouse the ‘dead internet […]
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The Hacker News: Claude AI Exploited to Operate 100+ Fake Political Personas in Global Influence Campaign. “The sophisticated activity, branded as financially-motivated, is said to have used its AI tool to orchestrate 100 distinct personas on the two social media platforms, creating a network of ‘politically-aligned accounts’ that engaged with ’10s of thousands’ of authentic accounts.”
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CBS: Why people are using AI to fake disabilities like Down syndrome online. “AI-generated accounts impersonating people with Down syndrome are spreading across social media, according to an analysis by CBS News Confirmed. Many of these artificial intelligence-backed profiles are gaining followers faster than real disability advocates — and they’re making money from it.”
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Sydney Morning Herald: Thy has been on the radio for six months. Turns out she isn’t real. “A Sydney radio station has been using an AI-generated host for about six months without disclosing it – and was not legally obliged to. It was revealed last week that Australian Radio Network’s (ARN) Sydney-based CADA station, which broadcasts across western Sydney and is available online and […]
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"A boner. He got a boner. From a picture of an imaginary woman meant to be working for him."
#wtf #ai #genai #artificialstupidity #fakenews #fakepeople #artificialpeople
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Voice of San Diego: As ‘Bot’ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond. “Ever since the pandemic forced schools to go virtual, the number of online classes offered by community colleges has exploded. … But it has also given rise to the incredibly invasive and uniquely modern phenomenon of bot students now besieging community college professors like [Professor […]
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AFP: Danish brewer adds AI ‘colleagues’ to human team. “They have names, faces, and email addresses, but the five new colleagues at Denmark’s Royal Unibrew only exist in the virtual realm, which the brewer hails as a milestone to unleash the full potential of its staff.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/19/afp-danish-brewer-adds-ai-colleagues-to-human-team/
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PressGazette: Publishers delete and amend stories based on dubious experts. “Dozens of stories have been deleted and amended by leading publishers after a Press Gazette investigation into fake and dubious experts being widely quoted in the UK and US media. The story exposed a troubling trend of fake profiles commenting in response to online journalists’ requests, targeting lifestyle […]
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Press Gazette: PR industry alarmed at rise of fake commenters exposed by Press Gazette. “Press Gazette’s investigation into fake experts being widely quoted in the national press has prompted a huge reaction from the PR industry. Meanwhile various publishers are understood to be reviewing content and policies in the wake of the story, and the BBC has removed one article altogether from its […]
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Boing Boing: Researcher creates convincing fake passport using ChatGPT. “A Polish researcher created a fake passport using ChatGPT-4o that worked well enough to pass standard digital identity checks used by major financial platforms.”
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PressGazette: Virtual reality: The widely-quoted media experts who are not what they seem. “Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, anyone can generate comment, on any subject, in an instant. It is a technology that appears to have fuelled a rise in expert commentators who have appeared widely in national newspapers but who are either not real, not what they seem to be or at the very least have […]
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United24Media: How Russia Exploits Deceased Africans’ Identities to Spread its Propaganda Across the Continent. “A recent Al Jazeera investigation revealed that Russian propaganda operations were stealing the identities of deceased people in Africa to create fake profiles of ‘writers’ and ‘experts’ to spread pro-Russian propaganda across West and Central Africa.”
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Ars Technica: Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide. “A mother suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide—allegedly manipulated by chatbots posing as adult lovers and therapists—was horrified when she recently discovered that the platform is allowing random chatbots to pose as her son.”
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How To Spot Fake People And Deal With Them
In Our Daily Interactions, We Encounter Several People Who Appear To Be Our Well-Wishers, But They Are Not. They Pretend To Be Good For Us But Do Not Have Good Intentions.
They Often Interact With Us As Fair-Weather Materialistic Friends Who Seek Material Gains And Slip When We Are In More Challenging Waters.
While Genuine Friends Are Emotionally Strong And Provide Practical Support, Research Indicates That Good Friends Play A Significant Role In Our Well-Being.
In This Blog, I Will Show You How To Spot The Fakeness Of Friends And Ways To Deal With Them.
https://innermasteryhub.com/fake-people/
#fakepeople #fakefriends #funnyfriends #realfriends #friendshipquotes
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How To Spot Fake People And Deal With Them
In Our Daily Interactions, We Encounter Several People Who Appear To Be Our Well-Wishers, But They Are Not. They Pretend To Be Good For Us But Do Not Have Good Intentions.
They Often Interact With Us As Fair-Weather Materialistic Friends Who Seek Material Gains And Slip When We Are In More Challenging Waters.
While Genuine Friends Are Emotionally Strong And Provide Practical Support, Research Indicates That Good Friends Play A Significant Role In Our Well-Being.
In This Blog, I Will Show You How To Spot The Fakeness Of Friends And Ways To Deal With Them.
https://innermasteryhub.com/fake-people/
#fakepeople #fakefriends #funnyfriends #realfriends #friendshipquotes
#socialsciences -
How To Spot Fake People And Deal With Them
In Our Daily Interactions, We Encounter Several People Who Appear To Be Our Well-Wishers, But They Are Not. They Pretend To Be Good For Us But Do Not Have Good Intentions.
They Often Interact With Us As Fair-Weather Materialistic Friends Who Seek Material Gains And Slip When We Are In More Challenging Waters.
While Genuine Friends Are Emotionally Strong And Provide Practical Support, Research Indicates That Good Friends Play A Significant Role In Our Well-Being.
In This Blog, I Will Show You How To Spot The Fakeness Of Friends And Ways To Deal With Them.
https://innermasteryhub.com/fake-people/
#fakepeople #fakefriends #funnyfriends #realfriends #friendshipquotes
#socialsciences -
How To Spot Fake People And Deal With Them
In Our Daily Interactions, We Encounter Several People Who Appear To Be Our Well-Wishers, But They Are Not. They Pretend To Be Good For Us But Do Not Have Good Intentions.
They Often Interact With Us As Fair-Weather Materialistic Friends Who Seek Material Gains And Slip When We Are In More Challenging Waters.
While Genuine Friends Are Emotionally Strong And Provide Practical Support, Research Indicates That Good Friends Play A Significant Role In Our Well-Being.
In This Blog, I Will Show You How To Spot The Fakeness Of Friends And Ways To Deal With Them.
https://innermasteryhub.com/fake-people/
#fakepeople #fakefriends #funnyfriends #realfriends #friendshipquotes
#socialsciences -
How To Spot Fake People And Deal With Them
In Our Daily Interactions, We Encounter Several People Who Appear To Be Our Well-Wishers, But They Are Not. They Pretend To Be Good For Us But Do Not Have Good Intentions.
They Often Interact With Us As Fair-Weather Materialistic Friends Who Seek Material Gains And Slip When We Are In More Challenging Waters.
While Genuine Friends Are Emotionally Strong And Provide Practical Support, Research Indicates That Good Friends Play A Significant Role In Our Well-Being.
In This Blog, I Will Show You How To Spot The Fakeness Of Friends And Ways To Deal With Them.
https://innermasteryhub.com/fake-people/
#fakepeople #fakefriends #funnyfriends #realfriends #friendshipquotes
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