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Lol this article doesn't even include the best part which were the pictures the scammer was sending. It's like 10 low res photos of Brad Pitt in a hospital bed, I think some of them lifted from movies. I don't even think AI really played an important role here.

Edit: Here https://x.com/PopBase/status/1879197931129163782

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calling that AI is very generous.

It's the sad part, not the "best"

What's the "best part" of someone with both HIV and cancer who is going through a divorce getting robbed out of every cent to their name and then mocked on the Internet?

Yeah, hilarious. Ell oh ell oh ell.

It's possible for things to be both sad and funny from different perspectives. Hope that helps.

We french are specialists of the tragi-comique

Don't backtrack now. It's only funny to you because you don't know her. I don't find everyday sociopathy as amusing myself.

Yeah, so what? That's how a lot of life works. If I had to practice maximal empathy and view every misfortune I hear about through the lens of "Oh my god, what if it happened to me!" I would be catatonically depressed and wouldn't be able to function. It's too bad for this lady. I wouldn't laugh in her face about it of course. But come on, the pictures are funny. It's okay to find humor in dark things. I try to find humor in my own misfortunes as well. That's life.

With the same low level reasoning I would say people are only sorry for her because she is a woman, that needs to be protected. Reverse the sexes in the story and you dont get much of an interesting story

What a blindly judgemental farce. Maybe don't project your own prejudice onto others?

Would you have shared / commented on the story and participated in the buzz of a story where the two sexes were reversed ?

Obviously. Why would I give a damn what's between the legs of someone that was a victim of fraud? It's just as sad when guys are catfished for scams and I feel the same empathy for them.

It’s not obvious to me this story would have reached you and me with the same strength, allowing us to talk together here

Fair enough, but I personally consider it a problem regardless of the gender of the victim.

This isn't the timeline. She decided to get divorced midway through this scam, and used the proceeds to help Brad.

Which part is the best part then?

The best part is that there are people so gullible to fall for things like this.

These are the people clicking internet advertisements and funding the web.

Maybe a radical perspective here, but I'd suggest that even dumbasses have a right to live with dignity and not get scammed of their belongings.

Even the biggest dumbass on the planet, in fact, deserves this.

Scam could have been done with Photoshop.

Meh. The only thing to make AI interesting was IF some box in a university basement decided to scam a rando with BrandPit while sorting email traffic.

I'll mention something that we all probably know: The crumminess is the point.

Anyone with any intelligence would pass over this as a scam. The scammers don't want someone with any intelligence. Hence, the more obviously that it's a scam, the better. Same thing with those Nigerian Prince email scams being garbage English. It's a crude, but effective, filter.

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