The difference between Superman and the neocons is that in his interventions, Superman saves everyone, up to and including the dictator, and doesn't consider a 5 digit death toll among the very people he set out to save to be acceptable collateral damage.
AI scams targeting the elderly with fake Keanu Reeveses feels like the perfect metaphor for 2025: a deepfake Messiah peddling romance and crypto to people just looking for connection.
This isn’t just tech gone rogue. It’s loneliness weaponized. It’s the ghost of capitalism wearing a Hollywood mask, whispering, “You are special. Now send Bitcoin.”
Meanwhile, Congress is too busy pretending it understands how cookies work to regulate any of it. And the scammers? They’re not geniuses. They’re just feeding on a culture where trust is for sale and every algorithm is a prophet of false light.
People need to understand that AI is essentially a sophisticated pattern recognizer that can generate data in accordance with the patterns it was trained on. It doesn't know what its doing, but the people who use it do and that is THE problem and in the wrong hands the scams that it performs are as good as those criminals are in their choice of training data.
Unfortunately, Peter is correct on this, the onus for dealing with these scams is more on us, the recipients of the email or text message because like any of these SW derived scams, anyone can do them. Sure, they're crimes, but any regulation will be defeated by the criminals. So, don't click on shit, regulate their use to protect the rights of others and add these scams to the long list of the existing scams for punishment.
Looking forward to the Superman covering. His and Wonder Woman comics were affordable entertainment when parents fold a bunch of us movies were too costly. With "birthday money" added. we could buy Batman, Bat Woman, and Superboy, shared with friends and cousins to make the spent money go farther.
The difference between Superman and the neocons is that in his interventions, Superman saves everyone, up to and including the dictator, and doesn't consider a 5 digit death toll among the very people he set out to save to be acceptable collateral damage.
AI scams targeting the elderly with fake Keanu Reeveses feels like the perfect metaphor for 2025: a deepfake Messiah peddling romance and crypto to people just looking for connection.
This isn’t just tech gone rogue. It’s loneliness weaponized. It’s the ghost of capitalism wearing a Hollywood mask, whispering, “You are special. Now send Bitcoin.”
Meanwhile, Congress is too busy pretending it understands how cookies work to regulate any of it. And the scammers? They’re not geniuses. They’re just feeding on a culture where trust is for sale and every algorithm is a prophet of false light.
Blessed are the grandmas who ask questions.
Cursed are the wolves in celebrity skinsuits.
People need to understand that AI is essentially a sophisticated pattern recognizer that can generate data in accordance with the patterns it was trained on. It doesn't know what its doing, but the people who use it do and that is THE problem and in the wrong hands the scams that it performs are as good as those criminals are in their choice of training data.
Unfortunately, Peter is correct on this, the onus for dealing with these scams is more on us, the recipients of the email or text message because like any of these SW derived scams, anyone can do them. Sure, they're crimes, but any regulation will be defeated by the criminals. So, don't click on shit, regulate their use to protect the rights of others and add these scams to the long list of the existing scams for punishment.
Looking forward to the Superman covering. His and Wonder Woman comics were affordable entertainment when parents fold a bunch of us movies were too costly. With "birthday money" added. we could buy Batman, Bat Woman, and Superboy, shared with friends and cousins to make the spent money go farther.