"To be clear, I am not really interested in criticizing any one individual here. In the absence of stronger rules on Instagram, this just comes down to a question of ethics. I am free to believe that what FutureRiderUS is doing is not ethical; they are free to disagree, or at least pretend to.

But neither of our opinions matter, because of two facts: fake AI slop is profitable, and there are countless users doing the same thing. There’s absolutely nothing to stop them.

That is: the Instagram platform doesn’t just enable this behavior, it rewards it. So do other platforms. On Instagram and TikTok, FutureRiderUS’s top hits are from fake LA fires; on YouTube, it’s three-hour long Christmas music compilations with slop visuals of families shopping. None are clearly labeled. Disaster porn is just another kind of #content.

It doesn’t really matter what that content is: as long as it is ‘content that grabs attention,’ both sides can make money.

For the slop creator and the platform, this is a clear win-win, at least in the short term. The only loser here is the audience, who is unable to recognize slop when they see it.

There’s this thing that AI proponents like to say every time something new comes out: this is the worst it'll ever be. So far, they've been right, and they may well continue to be right. It’s hard to predict what happens next with AI, but I have one prediction I feel fairly comfortable making: unaided, most of us will always struggle to reliably recognize AI when we see it.

But it’s hard to blame us when two sides are conspiring against us: Instagram’s interface makes it almost impossible to tell, and creators are incentivized to lie by omission."

https://www.404media.co/inside-the-economy-of-ai-spammers-getting-rich-by-exploiting-disasters-and-misery/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Any other 60 YOL types being spammed by lots of very attractive women followers?

Like I know I’m super attractive and everything but I didn’t think I exuded that kind of #SilverFox magnetism

Seriously, the only thing anyone gets from #spamming #discord or anything else unsolicitly into my DMs is a block & report as #Spammer.

• Espechally if you are the 4th (!!!) copy & paste account sending the exact same bs to me!

https://unipar.online/@nicole41

Apparently https://mastodon.luanti.ru is a #Spamming instance.

Why else would there be such #Spambots:

• https://mastodon.luanti.ru/@nicole17
• https://mastodon.luanti.ru/@nicole30

I suspect this instance doesn't even limut account amounts per IP...

#TIL there are people who don't know the origin of the word #spam as in #spamming
That needs to be remedied immediately!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycKNt0MhTkk

"In the 1980s the term was adopted to describe certain abusive users who frequented BBSs and MUDs, who would repeat "Spam" a huge number of times to scroll other users' text off the screen."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming

Note to #Spammers!

Try to avoid #Spamming instance moderators…it won’t end well for you

https://toot.wales/admin/reports/1604

Hey, @protonprivacy - just received your promotional email, something about winning a free lifetime subscription. Appears to be the real thing.

Problem is, I was already unsubscribed from your "promotions & offers" and other promotional/marketing categories. Not cool, #spamming customers that have already opted out of that #junk.

Filter your marketing stuff properly. This just pisses people off.

@KrissyKat espechally since #PhoneNumbers are #PII, #Spamming isn't prosecuted as a #felony and even if one doesn't live in a cyberfacist dystopia that demands "#KYC" on #Prepaid-#SIM|s they'd still have an expense.

• Also I find almost all #Newsletters to be #ValueRemoving #Spam they could've offered via #RSS instead or better yet, not at all!