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Why blame the ai when in fact it was poorly executed obviously with insufficient budget?

I don't see that they're blaming GenAI, rather saying that AI now allows fraudsters to easily generate impressive-looking but completely fictitious marketing which then persuades people to spend thousands on tickets. Without that, he wouldn't have sold many tickets.

"The use of AI, both in marketing imagery and writing, appears to be a recurring theme of Billy Coull's recent business endeavours."

Fraudsters never had any problems doing that in the pre-generative AI era.

It makes it easier now, that doesn't mean it was impossible before.

Exactly the point. Now the scammers can easily fool and execute their confidence tricks to overpromise the world thanks to generative AI which can convince thousands of people to easily fall for their grift.

The website of the event promises such enchering entertainment as catgacatching, cartchy tuns and exarserday lollipops. Or you can visit the `Twilight tunnel, with it's engemic sounds and ukexpced twits. (DALL-E can't spell)

I don't think the fraudster is in any way more impressive than more traditional scams like the Nigerian prince.

Don't forget the pasadise of sweet teats!

I wonder if they deliberately left those red flags in as a filter, in the same way that the traditional scammers often add spelling and grammar errors. Those who spot the low-effort attempt know what they'll get and stay away, while those who don't may simply get what they deserved.

> Don't forget the pasadise of sweet teats!

...or the ukxepcted twits!

FFaaS

Fyre Festival as a Service

Now ! Improved with AI !

Removed age restrictions to extend to a more gullible market, sorry not intended for there to be any chocolate for the children.

Some people just can't make money unless "it's going to be as easy as taking candy from a baby".

Or the technology-enhanced equivalent.

AI art is the latest signifier of “too cheap to be legit” but it’s still new enough that the general public isn’t attuned to it.

That’s why that’s the angle the news channels take with it.

Wonder what a GenAI poster based on a description of Fyre Festival looks like...

A Hieronymus Bosch style panorama of performative sexual favours being exchanged for sustenance in a Mad Max landscape.

Mind you, that depends entirely upon which description is input.

Have you considered applying for an AI Prompt Engineer job?

I was told I'd be struck from the National Engineering Register (Australia) if I did ... <sad face>

Serious or joking?

Engineering™ is a serious business.

Those old timers are just jealous of the incumbents.

> A Hieronymus Bosch style panorama of performative sexual favours being exchanged for sustenance in a Mad Max landscape

I can see tickets for a festival with that poster selling well...

Are you telling me those tickets I bought for Fyre #### Festival are bogus?

Seeing how the organizer handed actors AI-written scripts, he obviously has a problem where he thinks AI can replace everything, including his own or others' hard work. I don't know what the right words are but someone needs to give him a wake-up call that AI is not going to be his ticket to not having to work for the rest of his life.

You can see from the decor that no effort was made on anything. The problem here is someone trying to make a quick buck not AI itself.

These kinds of scammers have tried to substitute hard work with literally anything they can get their hands on for their entire lives and never learn. They'll keep trying with whatever they can get their hands on.

But the guy on Youtube promised me that AI generated content would make me rich? /s

Where are they blaming AI? They're just pointing out that the fellow behind this has a history of making books and artwork using AI, and using it to scam people. The mistake he made is overestimating AI and his own ability to bullshit around it.

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