Boomers on Facebook Are Leaving Comments That Make It Clear That They Have No Idea That AI-Generated Thirst Traps Aren't Real

You probably also guessed that the stripper isn't actually attracted to you.

I've seen some funny comments, but the ones that are like "ur so hot" are baffling.

It's a parasocial dopamine hit. It's like commenting on a Twitch stream. There's a fantasy that they'll notice and reply to you, and suddenly you'll be having a conversation with a famous attractive person.

Identifying the performer to find more of their material, or more of the same genre

We never would have gotten such gems as "give her the dick" without them

I've posted a few asking why they decided a macro shot of the dude's butthole was what we wanted to see.

I commented on one porn post here on Lemmy where the person was trying to look way too young. I commented in a reply to another comment that was saying it's kind of disgusting and wrong, because the intent is clear that they were trying to at least appear like a child. It doesn't really matter if they're actually of-age. It's like anime with the thousand year old dragon gir thing. If you're trying to create something erotic/pornographic while appearing like a child, that content doesn't need to exist.

That is I think the only time I've posted on porn.

Because the posts try to make it sound like they're private messages to you, and men reply in a thread with hundreds of others all leaving the same comment.

Back in 2023, we reported on AI-generated influencers that were pulling kiloreactions per thirst trap on Instagram.

Is that better?

The internet is just bots talking to each other! Are you a bot? Am I a bot? Who knows?

I'm also curious. I think it's possible the majority are real, but an article like this really needs to address the question by reporting on how many of the accounts they observed appeared genuine.

But space is so much cooler in the Imperial system!

Kinda wishin I knew what a thirst trap was..

Plenty of the young generation are dumb as fuck as well. Trump didn't win just by getting the boomer vote.

Plenty of morons out there from all walks of life.

I'd like to believe that most of the dumb stuff you see posted online is by bots trying to draw suckers to their echo chambers.

Unfortunately, I've met too many of the idiots in real life, they're definitely not all bots.

She got 100% fully naked in The Wolf of Wall Street fyi

Just a complete lack of understanding on display

Maybe, but I wouldn't be leaving those comments for real women, either. E-girls existed long before AI did. What do these guys think is going to happen? Are these the dudes who go to strip clubs and think that the dancer is going to go home with them?

Let's back up. If you're posting "good morning beautiful" to ANYONE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW, you're probably a piece of shit. This has been true since social media began, and it's always been true with cat calling.

I looked at some of the videos. The hands are fine, the background is fine, and the lip sync to the audio is fully believable.

I went through a few of those videos. Could not notice any artifact. If I had to evaluate myself I'd say it is actresses.

Really not easy to say those videos are made by AI.

A trick Reddit was pioneering all the way back in the late '00s. Drive engagement by using bots to fake engagement.

in a sense.. I know some people like this

Facebook is bots ONLY. So none of this matters.

I'd like to see your 'science' explain where the missing socks go in the dryer.

yea, they got no chill for yassified NPCs, YKWIM, tots delulu. I guess some sigmas simp 4 sludge, rather be mewing all day, no cap.

Why? I don't understand this comment. Are you unfamiliar with these terms?

Welcome to the rest of your life

But I know I'm not, because I ran out. I need to get more.

What a lot of people fail to realize is that the whole industry is based on selling a fantasy. It's no different then getting the girl friend experience from a prostitute. I don't think there's a meaningful difference between a real person and an AI in these industries.

IMO it's only a problem when the customer doesn't understand that they're buying an illusion.

The AI generated boomers are all commenting on political posts and telling us why lefties are wrong and global warming isn't real.

Not even CEOs, you can see various (at some point failed due to low quality high expenses workforce, that can now be replaced with AI, you get the idea) entrepreneurs and non-techies on Facebook write long excited posts about Claude.

About a computer program and a dataset running completely outside their control and scrutiny. Like white colonizers selling rifles to natives, but not machinery to make those rifles. Or ammunition, but not machinery to produce it. Or colored glass, but not technical processes to make said colored glass.

CEOs are right to be excited, they might be able to afford the real thing - self-hosted and with the accompanying processes, like healthy datasets, experienced people, nuances of adjusting models, stuff like that.

But people who are being shown that they can be replaced sufficiently well by a machine, that has another little trait of being completely adjustable - that I can't understand.

Someone interested in humanitarian sciences and art being excited that there's a machine parroting them well enough to replace them, except that machine can also be made to produce those things to fascist ends, - I don't understand that.

I would like to politely suggest that placing a parenthetical three times longer than the sentence it's nested in makes that sentence quite difficult to get through.

The stronger the stink, the harder my dink.

Yeah they pass at a glance. But if you look around at all, the account has uploaded that video 14 times, and there's no evidence of actual mechanic work. No grease or tools in the video, not even a vehicle. And the video stability doesn't match with someone holding up a phone like that.

My father has been very insistent on having a health insurance plan that could have a spouse added because he is sure one of the thirst traps he sends gift cards to is going to marry him. My sister had to have a conversation with him about not looking at nudes on his phone while visiting his grandkids.

Ugh. The only consolation my sister and I have is that at least no actual young women are being harassed by him.

They should totally Logans run anyone over 30.

Yes but AI is taking jobs away from real live sex workers. Won't anyone think about them.

Yeah, there’s people other than boomers, there’s gen Jones, Gen X, millennials and Gen Z zoomers

I wonder, like others here, whether or not the same people posting the AI generated images aren't also posting responses to make it look as if the images are convincing people they are real... those "life-like" response posts can make the images themselves more convincing, to some people.

I've been chewing out boomers I know who read off ai summaries. They don't even notice the ai summary label.

Good bot

flappers all day or nothing at all

How the hell will this be enforced

HAHAHAHAHA

No, it won't

They'll talk to a non-dude about feelings. Their feelings. In fact, they'll do that instead of seeing a therapist.

Truth in journalism laws need to come back. We're moving toward a future where we can only trust what we see or hear irl. I need a way that i can trust a source.

This unfortunately

I miss that sub

What the platforms know, but don't share very easily or at all, is how well established those accounts making the likes and comments are.

There was a time when the Facebook users count was starting to grow past the global human population...

Which means I may have been thirsting over a human all this time, ugh.

So thirsting over AI is your preference? Eww

This and 50-60+ years of being able to take video at face value.

Add to that the fact that a lot of them are lonely and probably have been for a very long time.

We already knew the elderly were particularly vulnerable to scams. AI just turbo charges the same scams we've been seeing for awhile. It's catfishing but taken to a whole new level and the elderly are already a vulnerable target.

It's a lot easier for us young people to learn new media literacy and accept that things are changing.

This is not an endorsement of the behavior. It's pointing out that we already pretty much knew this was going to be a thing. This isn't much different than your grandma trying to send money to some scammers who called her about an overdue bill or late taxes.

Or back in the old days a guy with a high voice on the sexphone telling they are "so wet in bed right now" while making dinner for the family?

I won't say that never happened, but I think it's highly unlikely that there were a lot of dudes taking voice lessons so that they could get a job as a phone sex operator.

My father is retired, my sister and I have carefully avoided describing AI to him because he would for sure get AI psychosis if he started conversing with a chat bot, his relationships are all unhealthy. My sister and I have made him agree to let us control his retirement income in exchange for bailing him out of a particularly financially devastating one of the many scams he fell for in retirement. We give him a weekly allowance for groceries and prescriptions and gift cards to give to thirst traps.

He is absolutely unaware they are fake, at a core identity level of refusal to grapple with reality. Some combination of he always had some susceptibility to this kind of thing, lost his only close trusted reality check person when he and my mom split up after over twenty years, and aging-related cognitive impairment.

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