boomers are so easily tricked by slop AI on Facebook, untold scams await

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we are living in a high threat world on the internet

It's so unfortunate people have a mindset if someone will fall for it, take advantage. We need to protect ourselves and eachother as a society.

i imagine this can only lead to universal distrust of anything online.. which would be good!

harder to detect and 100x cheaper to run them at scale.

Had an uncle tell me to my face last week that the fires in Hawaii were caused by direct energy weaponry by some adversary of the US. 

What?

I was like “oh. You mean when the power lines sparked next to trees that shouldn’t have been that close to them?”

Instantly replied: “that’s what the media told you to believe” as unironically as you can possibly imagine. 

Mans lives in Missouri. Town of what 500 people? Hasn’t been to Hawaii in 50 years. But HIS knowledge is definitely grassroots truth and not “from the media” 🤦

fr fr. Once the “scams” hit product market fit by telling them things they suspected but didn’t want to believe, it’s just a run on the banks now. The boomers being the banks. 🤦‍♂️ 

The deep state. 
The boogeyman. 
The (insert opposite political belief)

it's wild, boomers were non-stop about not trusting shit on the internet 15 years ago, roasting us for using Wikipedia, now it's just endless Facebook brain rot from them

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yeah doesn't sound hard

what I meant then is that no one has the balls to push something like this or any other solution on a large scale

Easy solution is right in front of us and the most basic use-case for crypto/blockchain becomes rusted brands / people sign messages with publicly verifiable eth wallets to certify their authenticity. 

Someone misquotes you in the news or publishes a deepfake about you? “Anti-sign” it with your trusted account refuting it as truth. Effectively publicly marking it “spam”.

Verifiable, permissionless, exceptionally lightweight.

Those grey beards with the PGP keys in their emails back in the day had it right.

we're entering wild times... 

and no one has a solution to it

so if there'll be nothing we'll just see bots talking to each other lmao

unfortunately agreed. One study shows that its a $4billion market

@px Youre dumb... i swear tom cruise is eating lizards. I saw a video. Wake up man!!! WAKE UP!! - my grandma

We need to eliminate the incentives for scamming.

You give to much credit to the other generations lol. They all be falling for it.

I was just talking with my boomer parents about this the other day. They believe that FB just has some filter to block all the AI. 

I didn't even know where to begin with that, other than to say to them,  "scammers always find ways to get around tech." 

And I told them to be careful on there

The easiest marks.
Ai literacy is such a necessity. Easily a multi billion dollar industry just waiting to be tapped.

how boomers think:
seeing is believing

how scammers of boomers think:
seeing is deceiving

just wait until youre old and the kids start scamming you with that new-new

TICK TOCK !

Makes it all the more important to build out better support and better social media infrastructure for the community, of all ages.

It’s only going to become scarier with AI