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Deepfake celebrities begin shilling products on social media, causing alarm::Hanks and other celebrities have recently become targets of AI-powered ad scams.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

There's an attitude I'm seeing in this thread, I already responded to someone about it, that I find really disturbing. The attitude that the less intelligent or the less tech-savvy deserve to be scammed by this.

I don't think people deserve to be scammed for those reasons and, as I said, I'm pretty disturbed by that attitude.

[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a fine line between deserving of being scammed because of who they are and consequences of actions or inaction and it's important we do not cross that line.

People have to take some responsibility to think critically about the content they consume. If people are not capable of consuming content responsibly, perhaps they should not consume content at all.

The alternative is policing content itself, and that is a very dangerous place to be for a whole host of other reasons.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If people are not capable of consuming content responsibly, perhaps they should not consume content at all.

And how do you propose to block them from it? Do you think the corporations that create that content care if their consumers are responsible?

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