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Taylor Swift fans scammed by fake AI-generated endorsement for Le Creuset cookware (www.independent.co.uk)
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Taylor Swift fans scammed by fake AI-generated endorsement for Le Creuset cookware::Deepfake ad showed an AI-generated Swift saying she was ‘thrilled’ to be handing out free cookware sets

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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 78 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

The deepfake Swift urged viewers to click a button and answer a few questions before the end of the day. The ad then sent people to websites mimicking outlets such as the Food Network, highlighting news coverage of Le Creuset alongside testimonials from fake customers, the New York Times reported.

Participants were asked to pay a “small shipping fee of $9.96” for the cookware […]

Honestly, it’s impressive that the scam worked given the number of hoops people had to jump through. I suppose at a certain point you’re so committed that the red flags on the screen look like hearts.

[–] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lately it seems like many Taylor Swift fans would slit someone's throat for the opportunity to look at a pan that she might have touched one time

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I have a lot of trouble understanding celebrity worship for anyone.

Don't get me wrong I have favorite celebrities for movies/music. I give two shits what they do outside those mediums or what they have to say. At the end of the day we are all hopeless idiots regardless of status and I wouldn't trust any of them as much as any other stranger. Because I don't fucking KNOW them and they don't know me.

Anyhow I'm not pointing fingers at Taylor Swift or her fan club. This has perplexed me way before the current generation. People have been following strangers like silly sheep since 0 BC. I get there are some deep seed instincts in being a part of a group that get warped here... but good gravy some people need to step back and have an introspective moment to break their fixations.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

For me, it’s Elon Musk. I’m a huge fan of the future that several of his companies are building and love that he made a huge impact in building them out as companies with somewhat unique approaches.

But y’all gotta stop listening to every unfiltered word he posts in the service formerly known as Twitter …. If so many people didn’t worship him, there wouldn’t be so many feeling compelled to hate him. Give it a rest … and when it is time to replace your vehicle, consider an EV; when you’re rural but need more internet, consider Starlink; when it is time to re-roof, consider solar; when it is time to launch your own satellite, hmmm

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

and when it is time to replace your vehicle, consider an EV

OK but EVs don't work for me, the most specialist boy in the world. I need a class-2 5-seat, 8ft-bed pickup as my daily driver because I pickup mulch every two years and my dream vacation involves driving 12 hours per day.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Be careful the HOA doesn’t fine you for not re-mulching every year 😉

[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

And they were the most intelligent Taylor Swift fans, too!

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Le Creuset is good shit though.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's high quality shit. Too bad it's so expensive.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah... Maybe a random celebrity would give me some for free though?

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm an extremely wealthy arabic numeral, and all my wealth is tied up in high quality French made cookware. If you pay shipping, I'll deliver a truckload of cookware to your commercial warehouse facility, and you can keep one pallet as payment.

I accept Steam gift cards, Bitcoins, and pork belly futures.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I can only pay in gourd futures.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hello, my name is Taylor Swift. Please send me bitcoin and I'll send you cookware and double your bitcoin back.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I sent u my bitcoin bb, show me ur cookware

[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But it's a scam. They're not buying le cruiser. They're paying the shipping on a free gift through "Taylor's" special website. They lose $10 and the scammer never sends anything.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Well I can't make a casserole in a scam, I don't care for that at all!

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

It's also overpriced and generally far from made in France. De Buyer, OTOH, is actually good shit at a good price. If it's tableware you want, Arc is French, good, and inexpensive.

[–] Sorgan71@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

if you buy cookware because a singer told you to, you deserve to be scammed

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well if they're going to get scammed into buying a product at least it's high quality shit

[–] Augustiner@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You misread. They got scammed into paying 10$ shipping for a supposedly free product that will never arrive.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Oh that makes more sense.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Is it a scam just because it was a fake ad? Le Creuset is like the finest glazed cookware you can buy. Their dutch ovens are sick.

Edit: always read the article. It was a shipping and handling scam.

[–] Damdy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Vintage le creuset is great. Just like pyrex and the rest of them though they've gone way way downhill.

If I could bear being in a thrift shop for more than 45s I would be hunting the good stuff down.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

EU pyrex is still the goat when it comes to glassware

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago

I was scammed by Taylor Swift into learning math! ( On Youtube )

[–] db2@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Get Schwifty gif

[–] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Got Shwifted

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

If you're braindead enough to just go out and buy anything a celebrity endorses, I don't feel anything but derision for you.

Most celebrities don't even have the education or critical thought to back most of their wholly incompetent opinions, so people getting tricked by AI is really a non-issue since they're dumb enough to think that what a celebrity talks about or endorses has any meaning or impact whatsoever.

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is hilarious to read because they didn't run out to buy the item, they thought they were getting it for free and just had to pay shipping.

Still not very savvy, but I would suggest you think long and hard next time before you attack other people for lacking critical thought and having "incompetent opinions." Lol

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yea, your intellectual dishonesty regarding this doesn't really change the core of the matter of morons doing or believing anything a celebrity says or does.

But good try

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

"My" intellectual dishonesty. Lol

[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wooooosh

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Pretty clearly I didn't miss anything because the other poster jumped in to defend what they said. But I suspect like the other poster you won't want to admit how wrong you are.

[–] kaiomai@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I have a bridge to sell, do you think they will buy it too? Would I need some celebrity AI? I smell money.