Taylor Swift fans scammed by fake AI-generated endorsement for Le Creuset cookware::Deepfake ad showed an AI-generated Swift saying she was ‘thrilled’ to be handing out free cookware sets
if you buy cookware because a singer told you to, you deserve to be scammed
The deepfake Swift urged viewers to click a button and answer a few questions before the end of the day. The ad then sent people to websites mimicking outlets such as the Food Network, highlighting news coverage of Le Creuset alongside testimonials from fake customers, the New York Times reported.
Participants were asked to pay a “small shipping fee of $9.96” for the cookware […]
Honestly, it’s impressive that the scam worked given the number of hoops people had to jump through. I suppose at a certain point you’re so committed that the red flags on the screen look like hearts.
And they were the most intelligent Taylor Swift fans, too!
Is it a scam just because it was a fake ad? Le Creuset is like the finest glazed cookware you can buy. Their dutch ovens are sick.
Edit: always read the article. It was a shipping and handling scam.
Vintage le creuset is great. Just like pyrex and the rest of them though they’ve gone way way downhill.
If I could bear being in a thrift shop for more than 45s I would be hunting the good stuff down.
Fyi American pyrex is very different from European pyrex.
EU pyrex is still the goat when it comes to glassware
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If you’re braindead enough to just go out and buy anything a celebrity endorses, I don’t feel anything but derision for you.
Most celebrities don’t even have the education or critical thought to back most of their wholly incompetent opinions, so people getting tricked by AI is really a non-issue since they’re dumb enough to think that what a celebrity talks about or endorses has any meaning or impact whatsoever.
This is hilarious to read because they didn’t run out to buy the item, they thought they were getting it for free and just had to pay shipping.
Still not very savvy, but I would suggest you think long and hard next time before you attack other people for lacking critical thought and having “incompetent opinions.” Lol
Yea, your intellectual dishonesty regarding this doesn’t really change the core of the matter of morons doing or believing anything a celebrity says or does.
But good try
“My” intellectual dishonesty. Lol
Wooooosh
Pretty clearly I didn’t miss anything because the other poster jumped in to defend what they said. But I suspect like the other poster you won’t want to admit how wrong you are.
I have a bridge to sell, do you think they will buy it too? Would I need some celebrity AI? I smell money.
