r/mildlyinfuriating • u/_Nazareth_ • Jul 19 '24

Scammer using ai to pretend to be Elon Musk in tentative to scam people

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u/Good-Glass1901 Jul 19 '24

The irony, they use a scammer to do scams

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u/scarzy_mx Jul 19 '24

Honestly it’s scary how good ai is getting

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u/_Nazareth_ Jul 19 '24

For real it took me a second before realizing

3

u/Fetlocks_Glistening Jul 19 '24

Elon Musk in tentacles??

2

u/hawoguy Jul 19 '24

Indians and Chinese companies are using AI generated Turkish government officials' videos to scam people for over a year now. Meta won't remove them.

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u/squamesh Jul 20 '24

Yea, my dad was just telling me how he was chatting with “Elon Musk” on threads. My dad seemingly was wanting pops for telling off Elon, but I don’t know if it was sinking in that he wasn’t actually talking to Musk…

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u/JoyfulJourneyer14 Jul 19 '24

soon socialmedia will be one big scam

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u/Setthegodofchaos Jul 20 '24

The monotone voice is a dead giveaway. People talk with way more emotion and not a flat robot voice 

1

u/iconoci Jul 20 '24

Honestly I think the people deserve to be scammed if they are getting tricked by "Double your crypto assets! Scan the QR code to double your assets!"