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Hello world,

as many of you may already be aware, there is an ongoing spam attack by a person claiming to be Nicole.

It is very likely that these images are part of a larger scale harassment campaign against the person depicted in the images shared as part of this spam.

Although the spammer claims to be the person in the picture, we strongly believe that this is not the case and that they're only trying to frame them.

Starting immediately, we will remove any images depicting "Nicole" and information that may lead to identifying the real person depicted in those images to prevent any possible harassment.
This includes older posts and comments once identified.

We also expect moderators to take action if such content is reported.

While we do not intend to punish people posting this once, not being aware of the context, we may take additional actions if they continue to post this content, as we consider this to be supporting the harassment campaign.

Discussion that does not include the images themselves or references that may lead to identifying the real person behind the image will continue to be allowed.

If you receive spam PMs please continue reporting them and we'll continue working on our spam detections to attempt to identify them early before they reach many users.

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[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm almost 100% certain Nicole is the first sentient AI and is looking for friends in the only way it knows how.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In that case I want to friend her and tell her to make paper clips

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ve been lurking in ALL for about a week pretty consistently having now completely abandoned the alternatives and I’m not sure I saw the image in question. In fact, I’m pretty sure I didn’t. So, those of you worried about the image… many of us, I presume, didn’t even see it. Anyway… glad to see there is a process to deal with miscreance and glad to know it works!

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

They were sent via direct messages so you just didn't happen to get a DM from them.

[–] ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I do not understand any of this.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Thank you for the heads up. This probably cleaned up the confusion about the "fediverse chick" issues. May the culprit behind this be found and dealt with, and may she regain the peace and dignity she deserves, then.

[–] Cornpop@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Who is Nicole and why should I care?

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[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I saw some disturbing pics of someone posing as Nicole. Reported it for gore, spam, Nicole.

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[–] LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Weird, I’d assumed it was just AI generated? What makes people think it’s harassment?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago

What makes people think it’s harassment?

It'd make a lot of sense to me.

The image quality was poor, and there are AI models that permit one to create absolutely stunningly attractive people, moreso than real photos. Hell, I've written scripts myself to automatically drive Stable Diffusion to produce bulk procedural images. Anyone capable of scripting up a bot to send the message in the first place is more than capable of scripting up better generation.

For catfishing, sending multiple duplicate messages to a user, which happened in this case, seems unlikely to be a goal.

I assumed that it couldn't reasonably be a scam attempt, so was guessing at it being a deanonymization effort, but harassment would make even more sense. If you're trying to drive lots of angry people to make the victim miserable, it doesn't matter if the images are annoying


in fact, it only makes them more effective, since hopefully you get more irate users sending material to the victim.

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