butters
High on a Hill
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it's bad enough that kids are dumb enough to think it's funny... kids are notorious for making dumb choices, they're kids, but for adults to send this stuff to their spouses? dang
It revolves around an app which allows tiktok users to create images of a rough-looking homeless person sitting inside their houses, on their beds, in their living rooms, etc... the prank was to send the images to a parent or loved on along with a message saying this person was inside their home and had said they were friends with the recipient and were refusing to leave. Obviously this led to a great deal of concern, and panic, amongst recipients who feared their loved one was in danger... a lot of these pranks resulted in the cops being called out, armed and ready to deal with a potentially very dangerous situation. Instead, they found kids, sometimes adults, in shock that the cops were at their door! One youtube showed a woman who looked to be in her twenties, laughing about it saying she'd sent it to her husband and hadn't even thought it would be seen as anything but a joke. What the hell is wrong with these people? How can they not see that sending this to a loved one, a very realistic-looking image with that message, wouldn't scare them into very real concern for the sender's safety?
So far, 2 minors have been charged, but the police have been forced to issue warnings over social media about the dangers this stupidity presents.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/tren...police-warnings-in-us-uk-101759932611620.html
It revolves around an app which allows tiktok users to create images of a rough-looking homeless person sitting inside their houses, on their beds, in their living rooms, etc... the prank was to send the images to a parent or loved on along with a message saying this person was inside their home and had said they were friends with the recipient and were refusing to leave. Obviously this led to a great deal of concern, and panic, amongst recipients who feared their loved one was in danger... a lot of these pranks resulted in the cops being called out, armed and ready to deal with a potentially very dangerous situation. Instead, they found kids, sometimes adults, in shock that the cops were at their door! One youtube showed a woman who looked to be in her twenties, laughing about it saying she'd sent it to her husband and hadn't even thought it would be seen as anything but a joke. What the hell is wrong with these people? How can they not see that sending this to a loved one, a very realistic-looking image with that message, wouldn't scare them into very real concern for the sender's safety?
So far, 2 minors have been charged, but the police have been forced to issue warnings over social media about the dangers this stupidity presents.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/tren...police-warnings-in-us-uk-101759932611620.html
There has to be a computer-based answer whereby all our devices scan an image and label it as AI through reading its code or something. (No, I am not very computer savvy, only speculating as a lay person).
