I seem to recall that email scams were not super polished because their targets were people who didn't question too much. I see that this has been adopted more widely.

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surewhynotlem 61 points 21 hours ago

So... Apparently this is real

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jballs 27 points 17 hours ago

Fuck, I can't even tell anymore

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QuantumSparkles 16 points 13 hours ago

…why not just tell grok the item you are looking for and have it send you a link to the best deal???

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87Six 2 points 5 hours ago

We've been trading literally everything in our lives for the sake of convenience for...a while... Wouldn't be susprised if some AI brain actually thinks doing this saves you time and is worth it...

Also AI is TERRIBLE at finding deals. TERRIBLE. I tried several times with very different products.

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burido 2 points 6 hours ago

real or not, it's just waiting to happen

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FlexibleToast 48 points a day ago

Even if this purchasing model worked, it doesn't make sense. You're telling me that these companies earn commission on these sales and will try to find the best deal ensuring they get the lowest commission possible on the sale? Yeah right.

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tempest 10 points 19 hours ago

They will start by skimming the referral dollars and depending on volume but eventually will start taking money to promote specific things.

We are not really at that level will LLM providers but we will be soon. Soon enough Google will more aggressively insert ads into Gemini and not long after that they will start taking money to have the LLMs casually add or avoid specific topics.

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FlexibleToast 7 points 15 hours ago

The way that they're coming under the microscope to earn profit it's going to happen very soon.

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SeeMarkFly 8 points a day ago

That's what those Quarterly Reports fixes.

Profit marches on.

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floquant 45 points 15 hours ago

Pre-AI: Companies spending months of work to be PCI DSS compliant

Post-AI: send your credit card details as a picture in a chat

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NateNate60 45 points a day ago

As if the AI won't just buy from whichever company has paid the biggest bribe to Elon for this.

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Dultas 19 points 19 hours ago

Also good luck disputing a purchase, that seems like a minefield.

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Zenorbi 44 points 16 hours ago

This is real... I can't even... https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109027407185277123

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kreskin 26 points 15 hours ago

I just looked it up: Wealth doesnt strongly correlate to intelligence.
https://thesocietypages.org/...

And a quote from idiocracy comes to mind: https://getyarn.io/...

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aceshigh 7 points 15 hours ago

The comments are always fascinating to read. Especially ones from 16+ years ago.

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Zotora 7 points 3 hours ago

How....

We truly live in the dumbest timeline

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QueenHawlSera 7 points 6 hours ago

I thought for sure this has to be a jest, no, it's real. Elon The Musky Husky actually smells like this.

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Leviathan 28 points 16 hours ago

Man, the internet has really just become a propaganda and advertising machine for a handful of billionaires, hasn't it? There's no fixing this, is there?

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kreskin 8 points 15 hours ago

If there is a christian god out there, now would be the appropriate time for a great flood to do a full reboot. You there god? At least give us a sign?

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LavaPlanet 15 points 15 hours ago

Why does everyone have to die, just because a handful of evil villains have taken over, tho. Surely an omnipresent god can do direct targeting... some well aimed lighting bolts should do it, yeah? Maybe the pre Christian version of the Christian god, Odin will be more helpful to call on?

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lefaucet 5 points 14 hours ago

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mobyduck648 3 points 16 hours ago

I think there'll be a limited reaction as time goes on, these days you see a fair few people getting fed up with the internet as it is now. I switched to an e-ink phone recently and loads of people on knowing they exist seem keen for one for example, people know Big Tech's products are generally bad for them at the end of the day. People who are okay with the doom feed of algorithmic propaganda and slop will stick with it, but dissatisfaction has produced some pretty impressive efforts, this platform included.

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Simulation6 2 points 5 hours ago

Drones destroying data centers seems to help.

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Z745812939054 27 points a day ago

twirtter users will do it, too

edit: leaving the typo because fuck twirtter, and fuck twirtter users

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boonhet 21 points 15 hours ago

Here ya go

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Randelung 25 points 14 hours ago

Ooh, black card! Is there a Mr Name?

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artifex 19 points a day ago

One can only imagine Visa and American Express sent representatives over to Elon with a strongly worded letter and maybe a crowbar.

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pdxfed 8 points a day ago

They wouldn't care, they're the network. The issuing banks OTOH...

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CatGPT 16 points a day ago

Musk definitely gonna max out everyone’s card for republican candidates

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GreyEyedGhost 15 points 20 hours ago

Please tell me that someone at least asked Elon to show them how it's done because they were a little confused. I can't see him not being able to show his superiority by doing it when they couldn't.

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jballs 13 points 17 hours ago

He actually did it and accidentally doxxed himself by posting his address

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Pratai 12 points 20 hours ago

Why is that piece of shit not in prison?

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bertlewirth 3 points 6 hours ago

Rich people don’t go to jail.

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Blackmist 12 points 5 hours ago

Hey that works on Lemmy as well. Just PM me your card (front and back), your home address, your passport, your SSN, and the product you're after, and I'll order it for you!

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BenLeMan 11 points 13 hours ago

AI derangement syndrome, terminal.

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humanspiral 8 points 16 hours ago

warning from grok bot: never share personal information with happy fun ball.

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mlg 6 points 19 hours ago

Didn't he found PayPal?

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Thorry 46 points 19 hours ago

No not at all. That's just a fantasy he likes to perpetuate. He was actually fired and kicked out of PayPal because the other dude hated his guts, when he was away on his honeymoon, but he still had shares so he still made a lot of money from it. That other dude was our other famous Nazi, none other than Peter Thiel.

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betterdeadthanreddit 9 points 17 hours ago

purportate

Perpetuate.

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kreskin 4 points 15 hours ago

or perpetrate

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Dreamcatcher 2 points 13 hours ago

purporportarte

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betterdeadthanreddit 2 points 15 hours ago

Also considered portray but perpetuate seemed like the best fit for the rest of the sentence.

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Thorry 2 points 6 hours ago

Thank you, fixed.

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tempest 16 points 19 hours ago

Sorta ish.

He founded a company with a group of others(who left or were forced out) that merged with another(founded by Thiel and others) to become PayPal.

Shortly after the merger Musk was forced out as CEO in favour of Thiel.

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impairedimperator 12 points 15 hours ago

Same way that he founder Tesla? Because when he bought the company, part of the purchase contract was that he could call himself a "founder".

I don't know, Imma look it up, but I suspect he founded PayPal the same way.

Edit: looked it up. Yep. He bought in, changed the name, and called himself a founder. Dude hasn't found shit. Apart from maybe peter thiels dick in his ass.

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HugeNerd 6 points 13 hours ago

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mthomson 5 points 14 hours ago

hell no!

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jade52 5 points 15 hours ago

Lol no way this is real. Nobody actually believes this is ok???

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QueenHawlSera 3 points 6 hours ago

It's realer than Isreal https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109027407185277123

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blackshirt 1 point 2 hours ago

that's a really low bar. anything is realer than that imaginary "country"

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blackshirt 1 point 5 hours ago

that's a really low bar. anything is realer than that imaginary "country"

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BeMoreCareful 3 points 17 hours ago

Does shopping even work like that when it's not in the grocery store?

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GenosseFlosse 3 points 19 hours ago

There was a twitter bot needacreditcard that would repost tweets with images and the word credit card in the text. It was full of tweets from mostly kids who bragged to their friends that they can now go shopping. And yes, some also posted the backside if you asked nicely.

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Defectus 2 points 20 hours ago

How about, no.

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100_kg_90_de_belin 1 point 19 hours ago

No has never no'd so hard.

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Sam_Bass 0 points 14 hours ago

no.

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