Man Sold Everything He Owned and Traveled 2,000 KM to Meet His Dream Woman – She Was AI

[u/efap1701]

https://www.gadgetreview.com/man-sold-everything-he-owned-and-traveled-2000-km-to-meet-his-dream-woman-she-was-ai

[u/Randomnesse]

Even if she was a real person - it is a very dumb thing to do

[u/BassmanBiff → u/Randomnesse]

Yep, but we don't really want to make lying to stupid people (or smart people, since we're all stupid sometimes) more profitable than it already is

[u/qpgmr → u/BassmanBiff]

In the US protections were derisively called "the Nanny State" by Ronald Reagan and became the justification for defunding/destroying all kinds of consumer protections and services.

The only thing it failed at (but came very close) was destroying the Social Security system in favor of each person having to personally manage the funds (or turn them over to a for-profit broker to "manage" - while collecting huge fees, which was, of course, the point).

[u/DissKhorse → u/qpgmr]

The rich want to profit off the masses and too many Republicans love the grift.

[u/eyebrows360 → u/DissKhorse]

I do wonder if the whole "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" thing is just a side effect of how much cheering for how great America is that general American media/culture does, or if there's more to it.

[u/DissKhorse → u/eyebrows360]

There is definitely more too it, it is part of the us vs them that right wing media instills in the population. An us verse them is required for Authoritarianism. Sometimes they rich believe it too but often I think it is more about keeping the masses divided so they don't group up and take things back, the rich quiet often arrogantly believe they are above the masses as if being born into wealth was deserved. By selling the idea that a white person is by default better than a minority they can believe they are just temporarily unlucky and that they deserve more. It later came out that Nixon's war on drugs was really about disenfranchising minorities and not the drugs themselves. The one thing most ultra wealthy understand that if the people got together and organized it would be bad for them stealing the majority of their hard work's profits for themselves. If you have heard what the outspoken tech billionaires have been saying it is easy to tell they are narcissists that don't give a shit about you.

[u/SueForPeas → u/BassmanBiff]

Did the AI or its creator even profit from him? Sounds like the bus company sold him a ticket and that’s the only spending mentioned.

[u/BassmanBiff → u/SueForPeas]

I imagine the account itself is monetized.

[u/johnshall → u/BassmanBiff]

Loneliness is a bitch.

[u/Dwn_Wth_Vwls → u/BassmanBiff]

but we don't really want to make lying to stupid people

It's a marketing account. They didn't have any direct messages with the guy. This is just another internet stalker.

[u/FartingBob → u/Randomnesse]

A guy i know from work last year quit his job, sold his car and half his stuff and brought a plane ticket from the UK to the US to propose to his girlfriend he had only ever met online. He also got baptized in a river.

Now he has come back home and she has come to live with him for 6 months while they start the process to get her a long term spouse visa so she can stay here. They seem happy and i'm glad its worked out for him.

It was a very dumb thing to do still.

[u/IAmSuperNew → u/FartingBob]

Why did he quit his job and sold the car if they were planning to live in the UK?

[u/FartingBob → u/IAmSuperNew]

Because he was out there for a month or 2 i think. The car was presumably because he needed money to spend since he wasnt working when he was in the US and no job just lets you take a few months off at short notice.

[u/PaoComGelatina → u/Randomnesse]

The crazy thing about this case is that the AI woman NEVER INTERACTED WITH HIM! He just thought it was a good idea to travel to that unknown location!

[u/Nice-Meat-6020 → u/PaoComGelatina]

I cannot for the life of me figure out why they're painting this man as a victim. He seems to have went there uninvited to stalk a woman he became obsessed with, thinking he could marry her. When he couldn't find her he roped the police into helping him. Like what the actual fuck is going on that people feel bad for him? He's a stalker wannabe and thank freaking god this wasn't a real person he went after.

[u/rirez → u/Nice-Meat-6020]

The NY post is a rag, so not sure of its claim, but they do say:

In the video that has since been deleted from the TikTok account @JessicaFazendeira – which has 300,000 followers – the AI-generated woman stated that she was searching for a man who she could move into her farm and fully support economically.

“I really want to support you, I want you to come to my farm and never work again in your life,” the AI-created persona said.

In a video posted Wednesday, the person behind the account acknowledged that the character was AI and denied having any direct contact with Martins.

“I came here to state the obvious: I am made of artificial intelligence,” the made-up woman said. “I have never spoken to anyone with this profile. The intention was to gain engagement for sale.

Obviously can't say without actually seeing the posts, but it does sound like the catfisher was openly inviting people to stay with the (nonexistent) person.

[u/SnoobNoob7860 → u/rirez]

the videos were basically of her saying “i’m doing so well for myself, i need a partner”

someone just showing up without interacting or ever talking with her (which the article confirms) is crazy asf

first person had it right, this guy is a stalker

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/rirez]

But not this guy specifically, just kinda people in general

[u/SqBlkRndHole → u/Randomnesse]

30% of Americans still believe Trump...

[u/Chadlerk → u/SqBlkRndHole]

Definitely a large overlap here.

[u/ArmandoGalvez → u/Randomnesse]

Theres people out there who believes they have a chance to marry their asian idols, so yee people can be this stupid

[u/psymunn → u/Randomnesse]

Sure. And inventing a machine that exploits dumb people seems like not a great idea

[u/bigfootlive89 → u/psymunn]

But exploiting poor people is like one of the main pillars of capitalism

[u/Chaotic-Entropy → u/[deleted]]

"You don't look like your picture..."

indignant modem screeches

[u/za72 → u/Chaotic-Entropy]

Fax machines are so hot right now

[u/ColeTrain999 → u/[deleted]]

Did the server have a USB port for him?

[u/SanFransokyoDuck → u/ColeTrain999]

Yes a MicroUSB

[u/BathroomEyes → u/SanFransokyoDuck]

Do not question this man’s sex drive

[u/cvr24 → u/BathroomEyes]

It was his X:\ drive.

[u/jmbolton → u/cvr24]

Better that than a floppy drive.

[u/afternever → u/jmbolton]

He showed up with his scsi dongle hanging out

[u/Rabidjester → u/afternever]

Poor guy probably just forgot to Zip up.

[u/Karlog24 → u/Rabidjester]

He thought he could just ram it in.

[u/lefthandb1ack → u/Rabidjester]

Turned out the server was only into FORTRANs

[u/TrailAndErrr → u/lefthandb1ack]

He is assembly-ing the server now.

[u/m3kw → u/SanFransokyoDuck]

His dongle couldn’t reach

[u/Momik → u/ColeTrain999]

Whoa… moving a little fast, aren’t we?

[u/brainrotbro → u/Momik]

They’ve been together for millions of cycles already.

[u/wolfpwner9 → u/ColeTrain999]

Has to be Type-C, Type-A won’t work

[u/Ialwayssleep → u/wolfpwner9]

3.5 mm still too big

[u/dz2048 → u/ColeTrain999]

He put it in the wrong side up the first two tries somehow

[u/dsj79 → u/ColeTrain999]

It was too big apparently

[u/reddittorbrigade → u/[deleted]]

Best case scenario, he can touch and see the rack.

[u/TheFeshy → u/[deleted]]

VRAM costs more than a wedding; he may have come out ahead.

[u/ComprehendReading → u/[deleted]]

Server?

He barely knew 'er!

[u/ZeroSumClusterfuck → u/[deleted]]

He tried to give it a 3.5" floppy, but they just weren't compatible.

[u/CartersXRd → u/[deleted]]

No, but in his heartbreak, he joined the Ukrainian Drone Corps to enact his revenge.

[u/Dreadedsemi → u/[deleted]]

The server said I'd like you more as a client.

[u/pierregaming]

“This is not a story about gullibility. It is a story about what happens when synthetic media becomes convincing enough to feel like a relationship.”

Man Clicks Reddit Link to Read Human Written Article - It Was AI.

[u/thebeesbollocks → u/pierregaming]

100%. I was reading through it and getting irritated that it was mostly waffle and repeated points. Then got to “and that distinction matters” and realised it was chatGPT. What a waste of time

[u/throwawayPzaFm → u/pierregaming]

ai slop about ai slop, 10k upvotes... fml

[u/alaslipknot → u/throwawayPzaFm]

for all we can know, half of the comment in this 10k upvote thread are bots lol

[u/kent_eh → u/pierregaming]

It's also a story about gullibility.

[u/Praesentius → u/pierregaming]

I know that folks rarely read the article, but god damn... this article was so blatant.

I came into the comments, ctrl-f'd immediately, and found your comment halfway down the page.

[u/HaHaEpicForTheWin → u/pierregaming]

'that number did real work'

Oh hi Claude

[u/blind3rdeye → u/pierregaming]

Clicks through to the reddit comments; spends most of his time interacting with bot comments.

[u/BeckyLiBei → u/pierregaming]

Pangram says the article was 100% AI generated.

AI Generated
684 words scanned
Pangram 4.0
We believe that this entire text is AI.

[u/JayPag → u/BeckyLiBei]

Do not trust AI detectors. This one boasts a lot, and I have to look into it more, but the basic premise for them is bullshit. Unless text has watermarks now.

[u/Josii_ → u/JayPag]

I ran a little experiment one time and typed out an old essay I wrote for school in about 2015/2016. According to AI detectors it was 100% generated by AI lmao. Those things are BS

[u/tenkaranarchy]

Dude got robocatfished.

[u/christophersand → u/tenkaranarchy]

Clankfished?

[u/HotwheelsSisyphus → u/tenkaranarchy]

Another job taken by automation

[u/badcrass → u/tenkaranarchy]

Grok, catfish my neighbor

[u/non_Beneficial-Wind]

Good for him, getting out of the house

[u/wickedhip → u/non_Beneficial-Wind]

Not only that but think of all the decluttering he was able to accomplish!

[u/Sardonislamir → u/wickedhip]

Minimalist "chef's kiss"

[u/smoothtrip → u/non_Beneficial-Wind]

He touched grass!

[u/Fiigwort]

The administrator, who was not publicly identified, denied ever speaking privately with Martins or inviting him to travel. [...] How Martins came to believe he had a personal connection with the persona remains unclear from available reporting.

If the account admin is telling the truth, it really doesn't matter that he went after an AI, what matters is that he sold all his belongings, travelled 2k kilometres, and tried to meet a woman who he'd LITERALLY NEVER EVEN SPOKEN TO.

The account was apparently making posts of an AI generated woman talked about how she needed a man to move to her farm and for her to support, and based ENTIRELY upon just those videos, this guy decided he was the guy™️and made an insane move. The AI vids were weird af, but this guy has his own, unrelated-to-AI, issues.

[u/GnawerOfTheMoon → u/Fiigwort]

Yeah I'm not a fan of LLMs at all, but if that is the truth then in this instance I'm glad there was no real woman to have to deal with some random parasocial dude from the internet selling everything and just showing up uninvited at her house after tracking her down. That's the kind of situation that can get violent when it doesn't play out like he imagined.

[u/Fiigwort → u/GnawerOfTheMoon]

Oh 10000%, it's absolutely for the best that this was an AI.

[u/Nagisan → u/Fiigwort]

That's the much bigger issue at hand here....what if this AI lady was not AI and he did find her, what then?

A man who gives up their whole life to track down a woman who doesn't know him is insane enough already, without adding AI in. If anything, AI did something good here and prevented an actual woman from being assaulted.

[u/BagsYourMail]

Scams are the best business case for AI

[u/LOST-MY_HEAD → u/BagsYourMail]

Scams, porn and war are the main uses for ai it seems

[u/Carrera_996 → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

It's really good at reading huge packet captures and error logs for forensics. Saves me a bunch of time.

[u/Philip_Marlowe → u/Carrera_996]

Also great at reading and reformatting giant datasets of corporate spend and activity data to support emissions calculations.

What I don't understand is why my coworkers all use it to write their emails.

[u/rangoric → u/Carrera_996]

Oh reading a minified stack trace with source code not properly linked is my favorite time with it.

[u/MirrorOfKalandra25 → u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

You left out one more thing. Artistic theft.

[u/fizzlefist → u/MirrorOfKalandra25]

Claude, Grok, ChatGPT… ALL the big ones are built on plagiarism and intellectual theft.

[u/Sassy_Bandit → u/BagsYourMail]

There's a reason the USA thinks "crypto" and "AI" are the future, and things like "high speed rail" or "renewable energy" aren't.

Scam of a country. Fake food, fake houses, fake tech.

[u/Slamex204 → u/Sassy_Bandit]

"Can I make money with it?" "Yes" "Thats the future"

[u/EmbarrassedHelp]

Even if she was a real person, what he did is still an incredibly bad idea and shows a complete lack of critical thinking skills.

This is not a story about gullibility. It is a story about what happens when synthetic media becomes convincing enough to feel like a relationship.

This is a story about someone making absolutely terrible decisions that defy logic. Nobody sane would sell everything and travel across a country to be with someone they have never met before. That's not the start of a healthy relationship.

[u/Fiigwort → u/EmbarrassedHelp]

I totally agree with you, but that quote is so wild. This is in no way a "story about what happens when synthetic media becomes convincing enough to feel like a relationship.", the guy NEVER interacted with the AI directly, this was in no way 'synthetic media' feeling like a relationship. It never tried to 'convince' him of anything. This is a case of an AI pretending it's got a nice farm and needs a strong man to come help, and some random guy deciding to give up everything he has to chase it.

Imagine reading, "hot singles in your area", and then selling everything you own to go find one. That's essentially what this is.

[u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys → u/EmbarrassedHelp]

I traveled 4,000 km to meet a guy I'd bumped into on Reddit 18 months before. He was 16 years younger than me and I was partly disabled. We lived in different countries.

We were both wary. I had given all my location information to two other people and arranged to stay in contact, while he had at least one friend who texted him the day after we arrived, saying "still got both kidneys?" My plane ticket cost a lot, but I didn't have to sell my property to afford it, and he didn't bring his kids to meet me before, you know, meeting me himself.

Doing stupid things safely is key.

^{We've been together for five years now, and I'm figuring out how to move to where he is}

[u/At_least_be_polite → u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys]

Meeting and selling all your stuff to move to someone are totally different things. 

[u/Wise_Guarantee_6370 → u/HeyYouGuyyyyyyys]

This better be real and not ai.  If it is not congrats and yes many times in life doing the unconventional thing is best.  There is a big difference between existing and actually living.  

[u/Apprehensive_Hat8986 → u/Wise_Guarantee_6370]

Not AI. I'm the lucky guy. And this

There is a big difference between existing and actually living. 

Terrifies me because it is 100% facts. I've followed someone on a move before and it was an atrocious blunder. But now we're looking at HeyYouGuyyyyyyys moving for me and I never want them to live a "less than" life. 

[u/SnoobNoob7860 → u/EmbarrassedHelp]

it gets worse, he never even spoke to her

the whole thing would have been a serious stalking case if she was real

saved himself a felony

[u/parasyte_steve]

We had to tell my MIL's uncle not to go to China to meet an AI chatbot last christmas eve.

The previous christmas eve he was ranting and raving about how Trump was going to save the country.

Yeah, you have excellent judgement and we should definitely all listen to your political opinions.

[u/saschaleib → u/parasyte_steve]

Went to China to meet his AI girlfriend, came home with a brand-new 5090 instead.
And they lived happily ever after.

[u/ForJava → u/saschaleib]

A brand new 5090? I would rather believe in a real girl.

[u/DJ_Sk8Nite]

The account known as “Jessica Fazendeira” presented a rural lifestyle narrative: a woman seeking a partner to share her farm, offering financial stability to the right man. Its following grew to more than 300,000 people, according to Brazilian reports.

That’s fucking twisted and sick.

[u/Pylgrim → u/DJ_Sk8Nite]

Yep, I'm sure that the beautiful influencer with 300k followers has chosen me, an online rando, as her life partner.

[u/ProBonoDevilAdvocate → u/Pylgrim]

It seems that he didn't even talk to 'her'. So this is not even a scam... The dude just went looking for her unprompted.

[u/chiono_graphis → u/ProBonoDevilAdvocate]

So he wasn't just duped, he's also a stalker

[u/Jonnny → u/DJ_Sk8Nite]

Wonder how many of those followers were real ....

[u/Smgth → u/Jonnny]

At least a Brazilian.

[u/amitym → u/Smgth]

That sounds like a big number!

[u/-kylehase → u/Smgth]

Technically the truth

[u/Velvet-Quill_ → u/DJ_Sk8Nite]

So the guy thought he was the lucky one out of 300k people?

[u/usrdef → u/Velvet-Quill_]

People scare me with their ability (or lack there of), to take information, process it, and come up with a rational conclusion.

[u/Fiigwort → u/Velvet-Quill_]

Not even that, the AI account (according to the admin) never once interacted with him privately, so he just assumed he was the lucky one and moved based on nothing but the public videos. It's genuinely lucky this was an AI, that's creepy af.

[u/imathrowyaaway → u/Velvet-Quill_]

dude is a 49yo poor, fat bricklayer. and thought that the wealthy farm owner milf with 300k followers was going to share her wealth and farm with him, just after he travels cross-country by bus…

in all honesty, I can’t tell whether this is a person with genuine mental disability, or another incredibly dumb and guilible person on the internet.

if it’s the second… man, how are these people so exceedingly dumb? just how?

[u/Lille7 → u/imathrowyaaway]

Someone else said the AI account never interacted with him, he just chose to go, that has to be mental illness.

[u/timeshifter_ → u/imathrowyaaway]

Work at Walmart and you will ask yourself that question many times a day, every day. People have become unbelievably dumb.

[u/bobandgeorge → u/imathrowyaaway]

man, how are these people so exceedingly dumb? just how?

Loneliness will make you do really dumb things. But the article says he never talked to the AI influencer so I don't think it's just straight stupidity here. Mental illness is likely at play here.

[u/addamee → u/Velvet-Quill_]

I’ve seen too many posts on Reddit of children whose elderly parents believe [Brad Pitt, etc.] are reaching out to them for a romantic relationship 

[u/ConanTheLeader → u/DJ_Sk8Nite]

Can’t even blame women for this one because there are no women involved. It’s just purely men doing this to themselves.

[u/PeppermintEvilButler → u/DJ_Sk8Nite]

How much money were "her" followers sending the AI?

[u/Airlik]

The article reporting on it sounds written by AI as well…

[u/Scary_North_3297 → u/Airlik]

Whoa! You're saying the man was catfished by AI, then the AI wrote an article on it?

[u/aDuckk → u/Scary_North_3297]

And we the bots of reddit get to read and comment on it. It's bots all the way down

[u/MarsupialMisanthrope → u/Scary_North_3297]

Catfishing requires interaction, this guy just decided to up stakes and go stalk some woman he’d never interacted with at all, he saw her on a screen and decided he was what she needed.

Suddenly I’m seeing a use for AI to allow women to be influencers while hiding their appearance from random psychos.

[u/Then_Ambassador9255]

Another moron made the news I guess

[u/Mundane_Existence0 → u/Then_Ambassador9255]

It's a less extreme version of making the Darwin Awards.

[u/coconutpete52]

As fun as it is to blame AI for things. The “guy travels 2000 miles to meet his internet girlfriend - she wasn’t real” story is as old as the internet.

Guess what guys - Bulgarian supermodels are not interested in your married 69 year old ass!”

[u/jscummy → u/coconutpete52]

What about the Romanian supermodels?

[u/Way2trivial]

from the article
"This is not a story about gullibility."

I disagree.

[u/Dwn_Wth_Vwls]

If she was a real person this man would have been arrested. It's weird to paint him as a victim when they had no direct communications. He saw a hot woman online, found out where she lived, and travelled to see her. This is pure stalker behavior. I'd say it's a good thing she was fake. Who knows what he would have done to her if she was real.

[u/StabbyBoo → u/Dwn_Wth_Vwls]

Huh, yeah. The (AI) article outright states there was no traditional romance scam or direct targeting, just that her account had a "romance narrative."

Good for the real women he didn't stalk, I guess?

[u/windflex]

That man ain't right

[u/Bulky-Pepper8611]

Man is an idiot.

[u/e_x_i_t]

It feels like the article is missing a ton of information as to what lead up to him selling his house and traveling such a long distance, the only thing it really goes into is how many follows the AI avatar has. Like did he see her, found out where she was supposedly located, sold all of his shit and went there expecting her to instantly fall in love with him?

[u/Some_Conference2091 → u/e_x_i_t]

The person running the account says they did not speak with him and didn't ask him to come.  

So in this case, the guy was a potential stalker.

[u/Terrible_turtle_ → u/e_x_i_t]

He mom, who he lived with, had recently died.

[u/Machine_Jazzlike]

If you read the article, they state there’s no evidence the account DMed or spoke to this guy privately or invited him to join “her” anywhere. It seems like the equivalent of a person dropping their entire lives to pursue a chance with their favorite celebrity or something, like a parasocial relationship.

The whole thing is weird, but the title feels a tad misleading as well.

[u/Nice-Meat-6020 → u/Machine_Jazzlike]

What it seems to be the equivalent of is stalking. It's what it would be if the woman had been real, and he certainly thought she was.

[u/Heavy_Record8704]

are the videos so good that people can't detect? all the ai 'models' i see are obviously excessively waxy and stuff. easy tell no? even if you are desperate.

[u/ComradeJohnS → u/Heavy_Record8704]

people got fooled into forking millions over to scammers pretending to be celebrities with just pictures scrapped from google, some with 0 photoshop.

well before ai.

ai just makes it even easier to fool idiots.

[u/Gohanto → u/ComradeJohnS]

Yup, people have been getting scammed long before AI existed.

But I wouldn’t dismiss people who’ve been scammed as idiots though. Imo, everyone should read about the latest scams regularly, instead of just hoping they can see the scam coming that thousands of other people fell for.

[u/waltz_with_potatoes → u/Heavy_Record8704]

Judging by Instagram.... Nope.

So many gooners can't tell. 

[u/ryfromoz → u/waltz_with_potatoes]

Facebooks the same. #1 flag is “looking for older guys” I guess its the current moden version of hot milfs in your area.

[u/yoshimipinkrobot → u/Heavy_Record8704]

You should assume AI will generate perfect images

People shouldn’t be confident they can detect them based on looks forever

[u/we_hella_believe → u/Heavy_Record8704]

I was just at a panel of AI and the images/videos are looking pretty realistic. Watched a full AI video and it was damn near flawless, and it was made with mid level AI, not the top tier stuff.

[u/neatyouth44 → u/Heavy_Record8704]

Commonly overlooked issue is that a lot of people don’t have 20/20 vision.

For you it’s standard, for them it’s unknown.

[u/leavezukoalone → u/neatyouth44]

Even with perfect vision, this shit is getting harder and harder to identify, and it's not going to get any easier.

[u/kahlzun → u/leavezukoalone]

I literally thought the flipping Tesla the other day was some dumb ai thing. Hard to identify goes both ways, unfortunately.

[u/kakallas → u/leavezukoalone]

Let me help you. If a model hot woman from a different country loves you and wants to borrow money, she isnt real. 

[u/Dr_Disaster → u/leavezukoalone]

Yeah, Nano Banana can already do things so convincingly that its ruined things like movie spoilers because anyone can create fake set photos that look pretty legit, down to fake jpeg artifacts and all. We’re past the point you can take any photo or video at face value.

[u/Kage_noir → u/leavezukoalone]

Especially because people were already heavily editing their pics in the first place

[u/happy_bluebird → u/neatyouth44]

I'm embarrassed to say that this aspect never occurred to me- a person's own physical visual ability

[u/Et_Fucking_Cetera → u/happy_bluebird]

Same. As a near-sighted person I'm surprised I've never considered that a lot of people don't have the fortune of having glasses, or being too far-sighted to clearly see a monitor.

[u/Ok_Kick4871 → u/Et_Fucking_Cetera]

You also don't have to be stupid to get scammed. This is something that stops awareness because of shame.

[u/insta-kip → u/Heavy_Record8704]

He sold his house and went there without over communicating with her. Doesn’t sound like he’s all there.

[u/TheUnderCrab → u/Heavy_Record8704]

IMO most of these stores are about people with mental health issues not just idiocy. 

[u/Putrid-Anteater7495]

When my mum got romance scammed I deep dived into romance scam mentality and support forums trying to understand her. It's not logical, the victims are just really goddamned lonely and will settle for breadcrumbs. It's easy to judge from the outside because we've never felt their solitude and isolation and desperation. It doesn't matter if the person "makes sense". Just being said hello to by someone interested in them is something many haven't had in years or even decades. 

The guy is a 50-year-old manual laborer who had to go to a homeless shelter after a single bus ride, I imagine his life is much like my mother's. 

[u/arjeidi → u/Putrid-Anteater7495]

When you see people's reactions to this stuff, AI is gonna be able to fake empathy better than people give real empathy. It is absolutely going to get worse

[u/Putrid-Anteater7495 → u/arjeidi]

Man, I asked on reddit about a booking scam and all the comments were telling me I deserved it smh, that I was dumb, even my accountant scolded me and told me to fix it even tho booking refused to do anything so I can't . Only AI actually told me what to do, fiscally, to not get fined (it was a company expense). Humans have gotten awful, AI doesn't have to be good, just not scold you and it feels better. It's why I don't judge people who become addicted to it. 

[u/BigBulgeBubba → u/Putrid-Anteater7495]

Scamming of any kind is almost overwhelmingly done to people who are halfway aware it might be too good to be true, but are blinded by the hope that it won’t be.

The majority of scams are duping people who get overcome with greed at the amazing offer and don’t even think about it being fake (imagine the classic foreign prince who needs 1,000 bucks and he’ll pay you back 500,000), or the victim thinks “no way this is real………. But what if?”.

Really it’s just preying on people’s hope and trust. Elaborate scams that concoct enough supposed validity to challenge skepticism are more like a plot or a conspiracy than a mere “scam”, in my eyes at least.

[u/crystallyn]

The irony of the article also being written by AI is pretty fascinating.

[u/amourdevin]

These are the sorts of stories that make me worried AI is going to be the cause of something catastrophic happening. Yeah, they probably won’t give up nuclear codes, but there is a huge array of options below that threat level where people could be susceptible to persuasion…

[u/chuckredfield]

Robussy got him acting unwise. 

[u/thedrunkmonk → u/chuckredfield]

Time to unplug

[u/anastus]

So we have an AI slop article about an AI slop scam. Delightful.

[u/ash_ninetyone]

We truly are in Her territory

[u/Significant_Swing_76]

Imagine showing up, with flowers and everything, at the fence of a datacenter…

Ouch

[u/glitch876]

I don't understand how people like this actually function. I don't understand how people like this make more money than me.

[u/waitingOnMyletter → u/glitch876]

My boss may be the stupidest “important” man alive. Like I’m talking like real life Homer Simpson but like also is a VP at JnJ.

He makes 4x what I make and I have no idea how or why he is in the position he is in. He has never contributed a logical or well thought out contribution to team conversation. He isn’t driving discussions in leadership meetings. He doesn’t attend updates for projects or speak with clients. He just kinda sits quietly in meetings. Says “thanks guys” after every call and lets the 4 of us (the directors/ senior directors) run their entire 100 man department.

The day I met him was the day that I stopped asking why very stupid people make more money or get promotions yada yada. It’s a club, he’s friends without someone, school mate or worse a relation, viola; major job huge paycheck exceedingly large bonus and stock. He’s a VP at a major pharma and he is happy to collect a check, let the programs run their course and if a medicine gets made great. If one doesn’t, who cares? To him, the scientists did the science, the managers managed, the clocks were wound and the trains ran on time.

He strikes me as someone who would fall for an AI girl asking for money. Then he would get scammed and still have more money than Crassus.

[u/egroll → u/waitingOnMyletter]

Is he charismatic? Seems like the more social, charming, attractive people get further in life whether they deserve it or not. Many times it's not who has the most merit for the position, it's who can pretend to play the part the best, especially at big corporations.

[u/strawberrythief22 → u/waitingOnMyletter]

I hate to say this because it's really sad, but you are so lucky to be reporting to a benign idiot. Malevolently narcissistic idiots in positions of power are way more common.

[u/laeta89 → u/glitch876]

I work front of house in a posh restaurant. I can pay my rent and bills, but I’m poor. Every single night, some zillionaire banker or lawyer or finance manager in an expensive suit comes up to me all confused because “the bathroom is locked! Unlock it for me!” Sir, that means it’s occupied, wait your turn, how do you make so much money with this level of common sense. 

[u/derpferd]

This is not a story about gullibility. It is a story about what happens when synthetic media becomes convincing enough to feel like a relationship.

I humbly submit that it is indeed a story about gullibility

[u/Least_Art5238]

Fool. Money. Parted

[u/Marinara-Mozz]

Fuck ai and scammers but i don't feel sorry for this man. He never personally interacted with the "woman". He moved there to basically stalk "her". The AI here didn't fool him into doing anything, he did all of it on his own hoping this woman was real and would fall in love with him and let him live on her farm.

[u/Glimpal]

New kind of Passport Bro

[u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

Wasn't the first time and won't be the last, sadly.  At least the dude didn't die.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/

[u/PurpleV93 → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

What a loser, yikes.
76 years old, lived with his wife, and still wanted to travel to meet some young woman from the internet (who could've been his child, age-wise) for an affair. Only to fall and eventually die after chasing a train.

[u/c0mpu73rguy]

Who does that? What if she was a fraude that wanted to rob him?!

[u/eW4GJMqscYtbBkw9]

Even if she was real, I can't imagine what scenario I would sell everything and move across the country for someone I never met in person. 

[u/GnawerOfTheMoon → u/eW4GJMqscYtbBkw9]

He never even met her online either, is the thing. He never spoke to her at all. He basically saw an influencer with a flirty public persona posting videos addressed to the general public and decided to find her house. This story is wild and disturbing.

[u/rqnadi]

So…. The insane part is that he actually didn’t have a personal connection with the AI bot before he showed up?

Like he just so everything and was going to show up on this woman’s door? This story is so crazy.

[u/Ok-Banana1428]

Are we gonna overlook the fact that he just went there... As in the article mentions that the admin of the page denied any invitations or offers being sent to the guy. Our guy here, basically, went to either stalk, or else try to rizz her up for the financial support

[u/Just_the_Setup]

We're going to miss the days when the only things you had to worry about getting catfished by was a creep or a serial killer, and not some random marketing AI.

[u/Taraxian → u/Just_the_Setup]

You were always most likely to get catfished by a scam, this is just a more high tech way of doing it

It's the same thing as just using some random porn star's stolen image and having the texts come from some call center in India

[u/Financial-Craft-1282 → u/Just_the_Setup]

Seems like an AI catfish is infinitely better than a creeper or serial killer.

[u/Popka_Akoola → u/Just_the_Setup]

Uh no I don’t miss serial killers at all wtf

[u/ObeseTsunami]

At least he got some liquid cash and got to go on a little trip. Glass half full y’know.

[u/Fortestingporpoises]

And people say romance is dead.

[u/moderatenerd]

Funny how the article is also written by AI

[u/slaying_mantis]

If you can't meet them IRL before deciding to sell all your shit then there's no helping you

[u/Nice_Block]

So just an average sipstea or conservative sub

[u/mvanvrancken]

There’s a certain level of irony in an article about an AI persona fooling a man while itself being AI ghostwritten.

[u/Quart83]

for me, the guy is one of the moderators of reditt

[u/FancyJesse]

The administrator, who was not publicly identified, denied ever speaking privately with Martins or inviting him to travel. The stated purpose of the account was to generate engagement for sales and commercial activity. How Martins came to believe he had a personal connection with the persona remains unclear from available reporting.

Lol come on now. comments talking about catfishing, but the reality is that this guy had issues. No direct communication yet he ventured out to find someone that was posting publicly. Comes to show that you should be careful what you post.

[u/Teigh99]

Well, at least she looks older than 20. I'll give him that much.

[u/Fun_Reporter9086]

The same caveat applies in this golden AI age, peeps: if it is too good to be true, it probably is.

[u/bunnnythor]

You know, the Metric System has a perfectly good and uniform array of prefixes for every scale. Why say 2000 kilometers when it is so much more correct to say 2 Megameters?

[u/waylonsmithersjr → u/bunnnythor]

I'm old as fuck, Canadian, and this is the first time I've heard of megametre. I get using proper scales, but do you think most people would understand a megametre?

[u/ryan30z → u/bunnnythor]

Why say 2000 kilometers when it is so much more correct to say 2 Megameters?

The average person is going to have no idea what a megametre is. It also doesn't have a lot of granularity unless you use decimals which doesn't look as clean in general writing. If you look up the elastic modulus of diamond it will be given in 1000s of GPa. Sometimes ease of comparison to other similar things trumps convention.

[u/DopamineSavant]

Account operator should go to prison.

[u/canarinoir → u/DopamineSavant]

Apparently he never actually corresponded with the account, just decided they were soulmates, sold his shit, packed up and tried to show up thinking that some blonde woman really had a farm she wanted random men to move to and would totally financially support him.

The administrator, who was not publicly identified, denied ever speaking privately with Martins or inviting him to travel. The stated purpose of the account was to generate engagement for sales and commercial activity. How Martins came to believe he had a personal connection with the persona remains unclear from available reporting.

[u/YamiNoMatsuei → u/canarinoir]

Sounds like the parasocial/stalker situations we've seen happen in the past from before AI, just this time he got obsessed with happened to be complete fiction.

[u/canarinoir → u/YamiNoMatsuei]

Yeah. Which is obviously concerning for a lot of reasons, but I guess at least there wasn't a real person since stalker stuff can get dangerous real fast.

[u/PurpleV93 → u/YamiNoMatsuei]

Now you get me thinking. Maybe there is something good in this after all, if these terrible, stalking men all get AI girlfriends to harass and ruin their own lives for, instead of bothering and harassing real women.

[u/fourangers]

I see that the article didn't show his photo. I need to show y'all. He's objectively, literally, in all kinds of senses, not a good looking guy:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Deg-MDepfve/

And get this. He said that he wanted to meet her because "I want a good woman that is not a gold digger." Meanwhile, he only got interested in her because she constantly said that she was rich because of her deceased husband and she was ready to move on.

[u/misanthr0p1c → u/fourangers]

Might want to take out the tracker it links the share back to your ig profile. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Deg-MDepfve/

[u/Obvious-Lake3708]

300k seems low as proof of life. Any number is suspect now

[u/Best_Cobbler_3719]

Stupid games, stupid prizes. 

[u/machobiscuit]

insert Nelson HA HA meme