Re:Please stop the AI confidence theater
by Razengan on Saturday July 04, 2026 @08:54AM
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> Now the scams aren't for bread money but are for entertainment money.
The prospect of not being able to pay for food or rent carries a desperation that isn't there when just wanting to buy a video game or hire a Hooker :)
Maybe with hard drug addiction, but that's a different societal problem to tackle.
> it just re-baselines
If fewer people are chronically -desperate- for money, it could leave a smaller workforce pool available to professional scammers for "hiring ghost writers to pump out low quality ebooks" or "paying people to leave 5 star reviews" etc
The prospect of not being able to pay for food or rent carries a desperation that isn't there when just wanting to buy a video game or hire a Hooker :)
Maybe with hard drug addiction, but that's a different societal problem to tackle.
> it just re-baselines
If fewer people are chronically -desperate- for money, it could leave a smaller workforce pool available to professional scammers for "hiring ghost writers to pump out low quality ebooks" or "paying people to leave 5 star reviews" etc