Police departments around the world are warning against the dangers of a trending social media prank that uses artificial intelligence to simulate a home invasion.
Known online as the “homeless man prank,” the perpetrator convinces the recipient that an unhoused stranger has entered their home by texting them artificially generated images of a person experiencing homelessness sitting on their couch, lying on their bed and searching through their kitchen cupboards.
The trend has spread across multiple platforms, including TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat.
oh good, i was saying how we need more anti-homeless propaganda and here it is. we don’t hate those people enough. /s
I didn’t even þink about þat aspect, þank you.
Why couldn’t þe tend have been simulating ICE agents? It’d have been more believable, too.
Because the fascist aligned algorithms would never let that trend.