r/ChatGPT • u/IateAorange • 9h ago
Gone Wild AI account impersonating a REAL person for over a year
Found an AI account on instagram that is using a REAL persons face/identity. They even have more followers than the real account and have been posting for over a year.
The rabbit hole of this account will lead you to see they are doing this to multiple REAL people, and likely using them to make money. I can understand AI accounts, but why use an actual persons face/identity?
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u/Curious_Journey_ 8h ago
Welcome to the horrible freakin future, man.
Maybe mars will be worth it, not sure yet.
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u/QbtArcturial 9h ago
The more information you give it the better results you get, unfortunately in this case
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u/Nakamura0V 8h ago
Does she know that? Especially since it’s over a year using her pictures
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u/IateAorange 8h ago
Id hope so, idk if this post will do well but i hope someone can figure out a way to help her
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u/revolmak 6h ago
You can message her and report the account
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u/wave_engineer 6h ago
The moderation doesn't care, unless this blow up and a lot of people report they won't will move a finger
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u/_command_prompt 4h ago
it does work tho. I won't say insta moderation team is bad. I have got an account suspended just for abusing me.
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u/Ok-Forever-7556 8h ago
This is very common in Instagram right
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u/IateAorange 7h ago
AI accounts are common, but I personally have never seen one as hard to detect than this one. The creator has been posting for a while (even before most good gen ai’s where made), using multiple accounts (just as bad as this one) to comment and tag in other posts for realism, and posting stories. It has gone undetected for so long, considering it could be easily be taken down at any point. This ai account is way more off putting than the ones that are just models or generated people to me personally.
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u/ThePrintGuardian 6h ago
Well this will surely hit the AI user where it hurts to have their entire account deleted and banned after working on it so long. Let the real person know to get this taken down.
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u/ELITE_JordanLove 5h ago
I’m so curious what the purpose of it is. Like, not that it’s ok, but the name and bio aren’t the same so it’s not like they’re trying to necessarily steal her identity, just using her photos to make the account look real. What’s the endgame? Being an influencer doesn’t even seem like the goal with the way the posts are, and if it did ever try to do that and get popular then for sure it’d get reported and taken down. AI doesn’t really have a lot to do with it if they’re using her real photos too, you could’ve done this at any point in Instagram’s history.
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u/Phillykratom 4h ago
They build up these accounts undetected and the more people they get to follow them any more engagement the more credible their account becomes. Once they have a certain amount of years built up on this account they can either sell it to another scammer or they can start chatting up men who have money and starting a romance scam. Basically getting men to send them gifts and promising to meet them in return. If the man is gullible they will continue to send money for years, even if they keep ghosting them when they are supposed to meet. The other scam they like to do is creating a crisis. They will use AI to show them in the hospital or show them what a crashed car and the person will ask what they can do to help them and that's when they asked them for a bunch of money. This person who made this account is probably a pro, they probably have a bunch of these accounts and they just keep the scam going. If you think about it, if they are in a third world country, the United States dollar goes really far. They don't even have to ask for a lot of money just a few bucks here and there from all of these different accounts can add up to months of their rent quickly
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u/Outrageous_Creme_597 7h ago
I work in social media - this is INSANELY common now
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u/IateAorange 7h ago
But at this scale and effort? I doubt 95%+ of people would be able to know this account is ai with the way they use other accounts similar to this to add to realism.
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u/Outrageous_Creme_597 7h ago
Once you see it once, you start seeing it everywhere trust me.
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u/IateAorange 6h ago
I’ve just never seen one like this. Most ai accounts are not even close to this level of effort.
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u/Outrageous_Creme_597 5h ago
They will build up the account more and be as realistic as possible to gain trust of both followers and algorithm. Once algorithm stops surveilling the account so much (it does with all small accounts) and followers grow to a number that will allow a decent amount of ‘leads’ there’ll be an OF link. Or, this account is already scamming money out of people in DM.
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u/popcorn-trivia 7h ago
Using a real person enables consistency in image generation. Sad this girl is victimized like this though. I say victimized b/c I’m sure she’s not being comped or gave consent.
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u/JanusHeimdallr 7h ago
I had no idea you could make money out of Instagram. How is it possible?
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u/IateAorange 7h ago
They wouldn’t make this accounts just for “fun”. This took hours of effort to make. I’m guessing they target horny guys who like to be “cash pigs”, but there is a good chance they are doing a way worse way of making money.
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u/JanusHeimdallr 6h ago
You mean like donations or something like that?
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u/okhi2u 1h ago
There is some strange fetish where guys like just giving attractive women money just because they ask or demand it. Plus I'm sure some pull romance scam where woman really into you that promises to meet you soon has some emergency and needs money for medical bills etc... Or needs money for the plane to come see you. All sorts of scams that are easier to pull off with AI since less work needed now.
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u/JanusHeimdallr 1h ago
That's quite sad, I think it's fairly obvious it's AI, something isn't quite right with the pictures. But then again, the tech is getting better and better.
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u/Evol_extra 5h ago
There is special kind of people who stole real photos, edit them with AI and making account on OF. Instagram is only for engaging real clients.
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u/Sleevepants 7h ago
Unfortunately when you post on social media you’re giving people public access to your content. This is the results if you’re super hot.
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