Technology

I have never understood the need to comment on porn of any kind.

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

Anything but the metric system!

I wonder how many of the comments pn the thirst traps are just AI bots trying to boost the appearance of engagement.

Fucking duh. They also can't tell they are being gaslit by bots on all their stupid conservative pages. Boomers are fucking stupid.

hornyposting on main must be one of these elusive family values then i guess

And it'll happen to you, too!

At some point you have to stop blaming the algorithm: If you’re posting »good morning beautiful« under an image where the hands have six fingers and the background melts into itself, the problem isn’t cutting edge AI. Basic digital literacy is part of living online, regardless of your age.

Are we sure all these boomers leaving comments aren’t also bots on Facebook?

They might be there to get the thirst traps traction to get out on all the old creeper’s algorithms in the first place.

Boomers think supernatural creatures control our fate. Why would we expect them to be capable of determining fiction from reality?

They've been doing it long before AI images too. Most photoshops got them too.

"thirst traps" "simps"? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

The solution? Flood Facebook with AI generated boomers and let the bot system implode and take facebook down with it.

I ran into a Discord where the sole topic was running hot girl "AI influencers" on Instagram. Literally hundreds of thousands of people thirsted over them, and the operaters made real money.

Their systems were pretty sophisticated. The whole process is automated; LLMs write the posts and do sexy DMs, imagegen and videogen models and such do the sexy images and videos, controlnet keeps the look consistent-enough between media. LLM agents press all the buttons. I think there may have even been OnlyFans stuff.

So a single operator could run dozens of bots.

...It's not hard for these models, either. DMs and short Insta posts are stupidly simple language, and media of sexy people in clothes, doing insta-style poses, probably makes up most of the image/video model training corpus.

I think there was some engagement farming with other bots, of course, but it would snowball and turn organic. Real Instagram users were thirsting over these bots.

...It got me thinking.

Is it really that different from a parasocial relationship with a "real" influencer?

I mean, functionally, its exactly the same. The users can't even tell the difference.

I posit that the whole "thirst" influencer system was broken and exploitive to everyone involved, except Facebook.

It was fucked up to begin with.

AI just made it more obvious to onlookers. It destroyed the pretense that any of it was "real."

Well, in a way most of the AI hype (like that you can easily replace office workers with chatbots or that software developers will become 10x more efficient and consequently you can fire 90% of your workforce) are a thirst trap for CEOs.

A bit like selling candy with crack on the schoolground of a primary school....

The title made me think they meant that they don't believe AI thirst traps are real, as in "there's no ai generated thirst traps" and not "the thing you're thirsting over is AI generated." 🫪

I mean most of the influencer bullshit is artificial engagement anyway. People playing a role to entertain, gain attention, make money. If you look at porn comments, they are all dumb so it wouldn't surprise me that the boomers leaving comments are similarly dumb "roleplaying", knowing that this is just a fantasy sharing between gooners. They might simply not care if it's real or not.

Personally I don't get it, but whatever.

I watched the three video clips and would not have initially guessed the leotard gymnast and the mechanic are generated. The sad gymnast looks a little plastic.

What actually looks fake in the mechanic video after a couple loops is the valve notches on the pistons, which are rotated from the correct orientation, and overlapping in a way that the laws of physics would not support.

I think the bigger issue is 65+ guys perving on girls young enough to be their daughters. Old guys who think they are still 25 and have game.