u/610Ken

I have a close friend of mine who is back on the apps after leaving his first marriage (and I feel for him - I haven't been on the apps in years).

He's been flooded with bots or scammers in his first few months, was more than I remember, and it seems like a real problem. He was definitely catfished once, although for some reason that felt better(?) than the several clearly AI generated profiles he's interacted with in between.

Some of these platforms have verification badges but they're inconsistent and don't seem to mean much (tinder's is just a selfie match against a pose).

What is your actual pre-meeting process now? Video calls as a hard requirement? Reverse image searches? Anything else you are doing to filter bots and AI agents out of the pool before investing time?

Streamer here (although I should mention, I'm not wildly successful yet). I've noticed a few interesting things happening recently:

• Clips of my stream getting deepfaked into scam ads on TikTok, and I think IG too. Not sure that's too successful because my following isn't big
• I had someone create a fake account in my name and DM my viewers asking for "support"

It seems like I am fighting ghost versions of my stream/my videos, as well as trying to get a foothold in the streaming world.

I am curious what people are actually doing about this. DMCA route? Just accepting it and moving on? Something else?

The thing that bugs me the most is there's no portable "this is the real me" credential. Twitch's purple check mark only means something on twitch and even then most people don't really know what it means.

What's working for you?

I have noticed that when I have witnessed AI content posted without clearly being labeled as AI, the reaction is...explosive. In multiple comments sections, I have seen people become almost militant at sniffing out AI, debating whether or not something is AI or not, or frankly just flaming the OP if AI is suspected. Why do you think that is? Do you experience the same reaction?

I recently read a Rolling Stone article about a few creators who had their videos/likenesses..."repurposed"... without their consent using AI. Has anyone had this happen to them yet?