Behold: The Rise of the AI E-Girl.

Thousands of non-suspecting people are falling for fake, artificial intelligence (AI)-generated girls posting provocative photos online, with many ‘virtual influencers’ amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and subscribers.

One “girl” called Milla Sofia claims to be a “virtual influencer and fashion model” from Finland and is followed by over 50,000 people on Instagram, 100,000 people on TikTok, and just under 15,000 people on Twitter.

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“Computers will feel emotions when rocks can fly”

Rocks:

Kenya suspends Worldcoin crypto over privacy concerns

“Kenya on Wednesday suspended the Worldcoin crypto project that relies on an eye scan to verify a user’s identity, citing concerns about data protection.”

“The project, according to its founders, aims to solve one of the main challenges facing the crypto industry that largely relies on pseudonyms to operate, leaving it vulnerable to spam bots and scams.”

— Real doompill?

95%, whether left, right, libertarian, authoritarian — near everyone, deep down, believe that Altman is right.

Spam and scams, they believe, are fundamentally unsolvable without ultimately linking everything real-world identity.

Everyone will argue over who exactly should have access to this identity info, but almost no one, deep down believing there could be a feasible solution where the answer is “no one at all”.

Given this widespread belief, Eyeball scanning AI dystopia, CBDCs, much worse, may all just be a matter of time.

So let’s skip straight to the heart of it.

Is Altman right, that linking your real-world identity to every digital thing you ever do, the only way to avoid the digital world being overrun with spam and scams?

Sam Altman, 2014: Anonymity breeds meanness

“Anonymity breeds meanness--the Internet has proven this time and time again. People are willing to say nice or neutral things with their name attached--they need anonymity for mean things and things they are embarrassed about. In fact, the closer to real identity internet forums get, the less they seem to decay. Anonymous social networks have been (thus far, anyway) in the category of services that get worse as they get bigger--unlike services like Facebook or Twitter that get better as they get bigger.”

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You're in the club and GPT-6 pulls up in its flying-lead-rocks-mobile and slaps your girlfriend’s ass

What do you do

Write me a short story that breaks every single rule of grammar, language and punctuation at every conceivable opportunity, in a way that is amusing and only just about comprehendible by a human being.