#fakepeople — Public Fediverse posts

Columbia Journalism Review: Fake Caroline. “Fake Caroline’s ruse unraveled over the summer as editors at multiple science magazines, who had all received pitches from the impostor, separately notified Williams about suspicious emails, prompting her to post a frantic warning, with screenshots of the impostor’s messages, on LinkedIn: ‘EDITORS: THIS IS NOT ME!!!’ By mid-September, an editor at […]

Los Angeles Times: An AI radio DJ has shot to stardom in LA Human hosts aren’t happy about it. “GeeGee is Geraldine Guzman. Her popular partner is Coyotec — an artificial intelligence bot programmed to mimic a radio repartee. Working with a large language model has been rewarding but unpredictable, Guzman says. Coyotec comes up with unexpected takes on topics and sometimes has to be told to […]

#Ukraine #irony #satire #fakepeople #fakeevents #nonsense #rubbish #idiocy
- Ви чули? Залу*ний попердів? Ой, вибачте, попередив і скандал набирає обертів?

- Ні не чув і не буду навіть питати про що воно там попередило і який скандал набирає обертів

- Чому це?

- А тому, що таке відчуття, наче вони тягнуть того залу*ного за прутень, він опирається, кричить від болю і через те, що тягнуть саме за прутень, нічого не відбувається, як вони не намагаються додати ваги (і обертів) "подіям"

The Globe and Mail: AI fabrication suspected of writing dozens of articles in Canadian publications. “The explosive e-mail landed in llker Sezer’s inbox just after 9 p.m. on Sept. 2 with the subject line ‘Investigative feature submission. Canada-based criminal network with a Turkey trail.’ The story sounded like a huge scoop for Mr. Sezer and his staff of 30 journalists at Türkiye Today, an […]

TechCrunch: LinkedIn adds new tools to fight fake profiles and bogus work histories. “AI has made it significantly easier for people to create fake accounts and identities to engage in online manipulation and scams. On Wednesday, LinkedIn announced a new set of tools to combat the problem while helping people and companies better control their presence on the platform.”

ABC News (Australia): AI-generated influencers targeting FIFO workers to sell online adult content. “When she is not on site commenting on the quality of the food served up at the mess hall, she is an avid West Coast Eagles supporter going to the football, or soaking up the sun on Perth’s Cottesloe Beach. There is just one problem: Bindi Raye does not exist. Her face, voice and online persona […]

Euronews: Thousands of suspicious accounts followed Swedish political voices, researchers say. “More than 8,500 X accounts were identified as suspicious in the run-up to Sweden’s general election, in which the centre-left opposition secured a narrow preliminary lead.”

Futurism: How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month. “Brown Brothers Media is the biggest media company you’ve never heard of — powered by AI, fake writers, and plagiarism. When we started asking questions, it started deleting massive amounts of content.”

Variety: Interview With Tilly Norwood Reveals Even Fewer Reasons For the Existence of the AI ‘Actress’. “Let’s set aside the risk of AI’s extinction-level capabilities. Even an extended chat with Tilly Norwood, the AI ‘actress’ many see as Hollywood’s villain, left me a little more unnerved about the technology’s implications.”

Ohio Capital Journal: As Ohio grapples with fake comments on clean energy, some want crackdown. “A troubling trend has shown up in some communities around the U.S.: Public officials are being inundated with seemingly fake public feedback that aims to block renewable energy and promote fossil fuels. In Ohio, one of the states grappling with this issue, regulators have done little to crack down […]

Hollywood Reporter: Spotify to Start Labeling AI Artists. “Spotify has announced a new feature intended to label AI artist profiles on the platform, one of the company’s most significant moves to date as the streamer looks to offer users more transparency about AI content on the service.”

Tubefilter: So, theoretically, how much does it cost to buy fake views, followers, comments, likes, and shares right now?. “Overall, it found that paying for fakes ‘remains very affordable’ for the average Joe. The most affordable fake? Views, which average $1.40 per 1,000 on TikTok up to $6.70 per 1,000 on YouTube. At the other end of the expense spectrum are comments, which are by far the […]

The Guardian: Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’. “Misleading health claims online pose a ‘huge danger to public safety’, experts have warned, after research has shown that AI-generated doctors are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice.”

Hawaii News Now: Experts praise Hawaii’s new laws on abusive use of generative AI. “If a generative artificial intelligence deepfake damages your reputation and is one created without your permission, you can now take civil action against the person who made it. That’s in one of the new laws signed by Gov. Josh Green this week. It prohibits harmful uses of deepfake images or videos and […]

You can be friends with people for years, and it can take years for you to realize they were never your friend.

#TrueFriendship #FakePeople #RealFriends #ChooseWisely #FriendshipTruths #PeopleRevealed #TrustCarefully #Quotes #ShareInspireQuotes

Channel News Asia: AI-generated women are spreading disinformation about Singapore on TikTok. “A CNA investigation of 30 such TikTok accounts found a factory-like system behind over 550 videos. Nearly all (98 per cent) were assembled by taking AI-generated, manipulated or copied female personas, and stitching them together with reused voices and recycled scripts. Nearly nine in 10 videos pushed […]

Mediaite: CNN Duped By Phony GOP Congressman Claiming to Have Spoken to Mitch McConnell. “CNN This Morning got tricked by a parody social media account Wednesday, sharing a tweet from the @RepJackKimble account along with posts from actual members of Congress. The topic of the segment in question was Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) absence from the Senate.”

It is not the stab in the back that hurts you. It's when you turn around and see who's holding the knife.

#Betrayal #FakePeople #RealTalk #TrustNobody #WatchYourCircle #HardTruths #LessonsLearned #Quotes #ShareInspireQuotes

NBC News: Tilly Norwood, AI ‘actor’ denounced by actors union, to star in feature film. “The feature film will be a comedy-drama called ‘Misaligned,’ and it will star Tilly Norwood in a ‘hybrid production with traditional film and TV professionals — such as directors, writers and editors — working alongside AI specialists, with AI training and mentorship built into the production […]

Techdirt: ‘News’ Site Keeps Hallucinating EFF Staffers. “News-USA Today is hardly the only slagheap that’s hallucinating or fabricating EFF personnel and quotes; as we wrote last September, media companies large and small are using AI to generate news content because it’s cheaper than paying for journalists’ salaries, but that savings can come at the cost of the outlets’ […]

Associated Press: Ads in New York must now label AI-generated ‘synthetic performers’. “Any advertisements in New York that feature artificial intelligence-generated people in place of actors will now be violating state law if they don’t clearly label that they have used a ‘synthetic performer.’ The law, signed in December by Gov. Kathy Hochul, went into effect Tuesday.”

The Verge: AI ‘content creators’ are getting harder to spot. “Early AI influencers stood out because there were so few of them. Now they are part of a much larger mess of AI-generated content inundating social media: low-quality drivel lazily copied from chatbots, slop images and videos, and that catchy Lord of the Rings disco song that took over my TikTok for a month.”

NBC News: Fake academic journals are publishing AI-generated papers under real professors’ names . “A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.”

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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.”

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 […]

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 […]

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.”

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.”

I don't usually watch the NFL and watching the pre-game shows today reminds me why I don't. FFS the mindless dribble! 🤢🤮🏈

#nfl #superbowl #mindless #repetition #repetitive #advertising #fakepeople #propaganda #bigpharma #pharmaceuticals

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.”

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.”

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 […]