Scores of online companies are using generative AI to fool consumers into paying top prices for lower-quality products by pretending to be struggling small businesses.

According to Chetty, massive advances in AI technology has made it easier to quickly create convincing sites that can fool even the savviest online shoppers.

“People can do this at scale, create these images, create these websites, put them up quickly, take them down quickly,” she said.

  • dumnezero@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The best use case of AI generators, just like for “crypto”, is for scams, frauds, hacks, and other shady stuff.

    There is no reason to keep it.