AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid agencies

Re:AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid... by nradov on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:20PM (#45645669)

I don't know about that. Regarding that particular example, anyone willing to interview with a "blockchain" company is very likely a scammer (or at least scammer adjacent) themselves. I mean there might be some legitimate use for blockchain technology but so far it's 99.9% scams and anyone unaware of that simply hasn't been paying attention for the past decade.

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Re:AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid... by anonymars on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:59PM (#45647011)

I think you're making my point -- is the fact that the putative job offer is for a blockchain company truly relevant to that story? What would stop them from making it an "AI company" or whatever else is the hot topic du jour?

I concede that the relevance is perhaps that if you're going to try and steal cryptowallets, you would want to select for people more likely to be crypto-adjacent, but still. It was a novel attack vector that I'm glad I didn't have to learn about the hard way

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Re:AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid... by nradov on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:04PM (#45647074)

If course it's relevant. In evaluating the trustworthiness of any communication you have to consider the reputation and authenticity of the source.

If someone asked you to interview with a money laundering company would you accept?

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Re:AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid... by anonymars on Monday October 20, 2025 @03:22PM (#45648046)

How is that relevant? If I get a fake offer from a fake company claiming to solve world hunger, does that mean I don't need to be careful about this previously unknown attack vector?

Do you think scammers can only leverage dodgy industries?

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