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The rest of it sounds like standard American speech with no discernible regional accent, and then there's the pronunciation of Amazon that I've never heard before

We really need to give people more time and resources to engage in their own creative works, because doing creative work trains your brain to really pay attention to the world around you, to see what's really there. For example: without hitting play, is that truck right or left-hand drive?

Holay! This is effing obnoxious. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Depressing af

That's a subset of a very popular scam on short form video platforms. A worse subset.

... We live in a dystopia.

Ugh.

Taking Pretendian to a whole new level

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Mb...

Yeah, David started getting an AI goth girl selling “handmade” watches too

This is horrible.

This is racist in ways I've never encountered before. Racisms not possible even 10 years ago. As a racist, I'm thrilled.

Yikes

iaca iaca iaca i just know this law called iaca www.doi.gov/iacb/act

Words cannot describe how unbelievably mad this makes me. Shitty techbros straight up stealing from the relatives Same as it ever was I guess

I look for goods on Native websites sometimes, haven't gone through with it bc I can't afford it. Items like shoes or jackets would be 300, not 80. The people who would be taken in by scams like this have not been looking where they actually sell goods bc otherwise they would go "80? 🧐"

I came here to say they have been doing this in the handmade ceramic world too but I see others have mentioned it. It’s really gross.

There was a big reveal that almost all of the “Native” Facebook pages were run out of Ukraine.

While I realize that no one in this administration would bother enforcing it, am I wrong to think there’s a law that protects against bogus claims of Native American craftsmanship?

goddammit

It's based on tribal affiliation not ancestry claims, so that wouldn't work unless they really are 1/32 Cherokee and are enrolled. You either have to be a citizen of that tribe or be officially recognized by that tribe as an artisan

nice share, I'm lucky to live on the territory of the Credit Mississauga by treaty as my family has for almost 200 years. stealing, or continuing to steal for our hosts is just plain wrong.

Maybe contact Elizabeth Warren and ask who could help stop the fraud. Hard to do with this criminal regime and their cuts. But it might be a start.

My thoughts too, is somebody suing these mfers?

Unfortunately, I doubt that the people running this will be under US legal jurisdiction.

i think there is one group doing a lot of them because they recycle the same formula over and over again, same music, same video concept, just a different AI person and a different item

Omg

And it’s all the same set of patterns: - AI video showing how it was handmade (but faked) - plea to let them know if their art is any good - loved one pleading on their behalf - derisive mean person at a farmers market, often throwing it to the ground

They think empathy is dysgenic weakness, so of course they attack it however they can. If they scam you, that harms you and this is good to them. If you decide callousness is the only defense, they win too because then you are less likely to object to their cruelty to others.

I think one clue is they don’t identify as a specific tribe but as Native American or Indigenous.

Jesus

Jesus Christ, the AI-propriation wasn't horrendous enough? Nah, gotta throw some AI titties on there to make it as disrespectful as possible.

This is enraging on so many levels.

Facebook goes through extremely weird waves of porn and porn-adjacent content

😳

Ah-ma-zahn. Only AI would say it that way.

“Slippers”?

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

Yeah tt is bull.

Ive seen a ton for dnd nerds, some saying "Help this black women sell her bags!" and various other ones trying to claim a minority owned business. Its not only fake, its actively harming real people trying to sell real items they make because too many people just dont know whats real anymore.

Shite

I'm definitely not getting my jacket from Am A Zahn now!!

Ah-mah-zahn

FUUUCK THIS

Ugh.

I have seen other genres of the fake AI handcrafts sob story tiktok and didn’t know they were also doing this weird racism with it :(

The repeated price and storefront template are more useful than the images alone. Platforms can follow those shared patterns through payment accounts and fulfillment instead of asking buyers to spot every fake.

There’s a whole series of AI scams like this that focus on various communities including young people with Down’s Syndrome, LGBTQ people, and the elderly (usually presented by their adult son or daughter).