I'm almost 100% certain Nicole is the first sentient AI and is looking for friends in the only way it knows how.
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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!
They were sent via direct messages so you just didn't happen to get a DM from them.
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.
I saw some disturbing pics of someone posing as Nicole. Reported it for gore, spam, Nicole.
Weird, I’d assumed it was just AI generated? What makes people think it’s harassment?
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.