Damn, well there goes my senior project idea... I got the inspiration from YT cracker:

Push the gas - escalate the gauges

Escalate hits on our camgirls' pages

Blaze it and hit em with a script full of sexy phrases

Slow down and turn the corner

We been cornering the game since the five and quarter

Represent that nerd world order

Replacing all the brick and mortar

Sending mails off an auto forwarder

From a girl in florida with a case of boredom

And you can't ignore em cuz the filters weak

Into the inbox they all creep while you sleep

There is enough content out there to train models to do this, and scraping all the social media for more content made this inevitable.

Back in 2019 I went to an album release party, indie label artist, and I saw the cover of the album and it looked pretty damn near a girl I worked at but... Cyberpunked hero.

I was shocked of not just the resemblance (the face had a lot of detail) but of how likely the ability to this had started to become commonplace with deepfakes starting to hit their stride. Weeks later I was talking to her friend, and mentioned it in passing: she asked me to show it to her as she thought it was funny, so I did. Her response was not what I expected: 'Wow, you think I look like that? I guess I'm really hot.'

Honestly, this is why I always questioned the implicit disorienting nature of online dating apps and their effects on the psyche as non=participating observor: there was a mantra back in the late 90s early 2000s that 'no girls are on the internet' [0], with hindsight it turns out it wasn't just pervy dudes catfishing, but it would end up being bots run and operated for profit by said guys.

Bizarre times indeed.

0: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/there-are-no-girls-on-the-int...