Restaurant owner promoting business with AI interview???
My boyfriend and I were exploring the Giardini de Villa Borghese last week where we stopped for a cup of coffee within the park.
We chatted with a man who seemed like the Owner or Boss. He was interesting and was making some small talk, relating to places we’ve both gone within the States.
He then started talking about how he provides tours for celebrities and the super wealthy. He mentioned he can get private Vatican Tours at night, but they cost “10 thousand US dollars”. (Not sure if he was trying to sell us this as it’s is very obviously out of our budget, or if he was just trying to show off).
He then pulled out his phone and said “Yeah my sister lives in California and sent me this clip the other day, I had no idea it was happening”.
It was a clip of a familiar actor (looked like Luke from Modern Family) being interviewed on the Steven Colbert show. The actor said “Yeah! We were going around Rome last week and there’s this guy, <NAME>,** **he will take you on late night tours around the city. This man works with Scorsese. He’s awesome!”
I sort of zoned out the rest of the video as I was highly skeptical it was AI.
Has anyone else seen this tactic? Is this a new way for people to gain credibility?
tl;dr: Restaurant owner showed us a clip on his phone of Stephen Colbert interviewing an actor who name dropped him and highly rating his tours. Video also claimed Scorcese was one of his customers.