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Inside the Economy of AI Spammers Getting Rich By Exploiting Disasters and Misery | How AI spammers monetized the LA fires and other natural disasters.


How AI spammers monetized the LA fires and other natural disasters.

On Instagram and TikTok, FutureRiderUS’s top hits are from fake LA fires; on YouTube, it’s three-hour long Christmas music compilations with slop visuals of families shopping. On January 14, as talks of a Gaza ceasefire started to circulate, the account anticipated interest in the trend, and made a post — as their viral video guide suggests. This post is an AI slop collage of a Palestinian flag atop a spire, a woman crying as bodies and rubble lay in the street, children, bloody arms, doctors walking sideways.

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