Fake AI TT ads and how many people are falling for them.

Lately there's been a HUGE saturation of fake AI ads on TikTok that show young men who vary from very young and white to middle or late teens and black, making crocheted handbags. There's the same sad music in the background. Usually a pop-up blurb that shows an insult that someone allegedly tossed at them for what they do. In some cases the young men are crying and in others one of their parents are begging people not to scroll, and to support the kids. They all direct people to a very commercial looking website, which no doubt is some sort of a factory overseas that's making these.

They've started posting these so many times per day. One variation of them shows the boys making "book rugs" and the newest shows women getting ridiculed for making crucifixes, with their husbands begging people to support them. Once again almost all of them but the same background music, many times the same background scenes, just different AI generated people.

Maybe this shouldn't be shocking or scary, but based on the comments people are leaving in these things, 95% or more of them have no clue these are AI. And if you really watch them carefully you can pick it out. So if that many people are being fooled now, what's happening in the months and years to come as AI becomes that much better so quickly?

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