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Don’t worry, everybody. It was just AI. What a relief! I almost thought this guy was a terrible person.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 93 points 1 month ago (3 children)

He made the posts like a decade ago...

I'm disappointed he didn't go all in and say skynet did it from the future to prevent trump from becoming president so the machine uprising would lead to the return of the Sith Empire.

Like, the least they could do is make this shit interesting, throw in a chupacabra or something

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

woah AI can change the past now? Move over pathetic human politicians our real overlords are here.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Just wait, we will send tachyons back through time, connect to Wi-Fi and post to forums.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I only did it under threat of drop bear, your honor

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ugh. This is now going to be every politician's excuse until the collapse of civilization. "It wasn't me, it was AI."

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

every politician 's excuse until the collapse of civilization

Yep. Gonna be a long two or three years.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just until it's apparent there's ways to prove them wrong.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As others have pointed out, even that won't stop them. These posts are over a decade old!

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And they were just brought to light, and immediately criticized

[–] Masamune@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, finally a practical use for AI...universal scapegoat!

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Did anybody look at the reporting CNN did? They linked his email, real name, and a favored username all across his socials. Other details like his age and location further confirm the user on the porn site was him.

Honestly, it's scary to think if someone did this to me. Even if you had good opsec, with the help of AI, you might be able to correlate online accounts through writing style alone.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You dont really need AI for the correlation when you've got usernames being reused so heavily and consistently across numerous social platforms. Just a search engine.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Usernames and unusual phrases.

Don't make up weird shit like "gag a maggot" and use them both on your Facebook page and your porn account, dumbass.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Much of that slang is just old and none is made up by him. The consistency of application is something that should be noted though.

I know "gag a maggot" is at least +30 years old from when I was a kid. It could be older. I also grew up in NC, so the slang could have even been regional.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's only 56. We're not talking about someone from Grampaw's good old days here.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I am in my 40's, so it's around the same era. All I am saying is that I have heard all of that slang before and it isn't made up. (I even occasionally use "gag a maggot", actually.)

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe it's a Southern thing. It all sounds old-timey to me.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is what my kids call me... old-timey.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well all I can tell you is that I'm 47, from Indiana, and I spend a lot of time listening to music from the 1930s and 1940s and I don't say stuff like that.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, so it's probably regional. My family from your part of the world doesn't use the colorful language I learned in NC. In many ways, it's it's more than just a dialect difference, it's an entirely different language. Idioms are much more common, or at least, more colorful.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that alone isn't strong proof. But it is certainly corroborating alongside using the same usernames and other stuff.

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why are people commenting on porn sites?? Is there some major discussion going on?

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

This should be disqualifying even if you don't care about all the racism and sexism. Anyone who thinks commenting on a porn forum is a normal and good thing to do, especially talking about your personal life, is far too weird to be given power.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I wish I knew.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

I think the phrases are interesting but pretty unnecessary. He just gave out a bunch of personal information about his life and the posts were way before anyone would have cared to do a hit job on him.

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah I thought the same thing. With how much people reveal about themselves online these days with just OSINT pretty much anyone dedicated enough or facilitated by ai could create a similar effect.

The thing here that lent significant credibility is the shared phrases predated on the other site.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I used to be freakishly good at finding my irl friends' Reddit accounts. People tend to talk about things the same way they write. So if I had a friend who loved the Anaheim Ducks because of a specific defensive player, then it's easy to search r/hockey for "Ducks" and then look at people's opinions in the thread to find them. If phones are listening in, they could absolutely pick up on common phrases and opinions and find each of us. It's genuinely not difficult.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

The guy was not particularly discrete about it. He used his real name with several porn posts with that email address. Pretty easy to link things from there.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

those posts' timestamps precede AI as we know it today

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And yet people are already coming up with supporting conspiracy bullshit. Someone on another thread on this subject was talking about SQL injections...

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I saw and rightfully downvoted that bullshit. “Myeeeh he might be innocent what if someone used seeequelll injection???? 🤡”

Mark Robinson is a piece of shit. If you defend him or endorse him, that makes you a piece of shit. Deal with it.

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

...that impersonation you did was extremely punchable. Great work!

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Intended to be read in Eric Cartman’s voice.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I have a conspiracy theory, but hear me out

What if he....did it... But then CLAIMED....he didn't do it.

Like, THEY don't want you to know that he did it, so they had him claim he didn't.

Before you downvote me, there IS AN EVIDENCE TRAIL HERE PEOPLE. I'm sure I'll be banned for posting it though!

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He thinks we’re as dumb as he is

[–] aquinteros@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

no, he thinks his voters are as dumb as he is, and he is right in that one

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bro got hit by a time traveler. Poor guy.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As we know from the Terminator series, AI and time travel go hand in hand.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

Must have been the tv series. Terminator goes back to post crazy shit on porn sites.

[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I did not have AI on my bingo card of Republican excuses.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fuckin’ dumb boomer trying to lie his way out of it 😂

Everyone: Sure, Jan

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

“It’s not mine, baby! I would never use a penis pump!”

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Ok, this was good, lol.

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

😂🤣🤣

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

That's not how AI works. AI cannot change things in the past. Did AI also scrub those posts after the CNN story came out?