[evrflx]

Why blame the ai when in fact it was poorly executed obviously with insufficient budget?

[smcin]

I don't see that they're blaming GenAI, rather saying that AI now allows fraudsters to easily generate impressive-looking but completely fictitious marketing which then persuades people to spend thousands on tickets. Without that, he wouldn't have sold many tickets.

"The use of AI, both in marketing imagery and writing, appears to be a recurring theme of Billy Coull's recent business endeavours."

[username332211]

The website of the event promises such enchering entertainment as catgacatching, cartchy tuns and exarserday lollipops. Or you can visit the `Twilight tunnel, with it's engemic sounds and ukexpced twits. (DALL-E can't spell)

I don't think the fraudster is in any way more impressive than more traditional scams like the Nigerian prince.

[fuzzfactor]

FFaaS

Fyre Festival as a Service

Now ! Improved with AI !

Removed age restrictions to extend to a more gullible market, sorry not intended for there to be any chocolate for the children.

Some people just can't make money unless "it's going to be as easy as taking candy from a baby".

Or the technology-enhanced equivalent.

[bawolff]

Fraudsters never had any problems doing that in the pre-generative AI era.

[sharkjacobs]

AI art is the latest signifier of “too cheap to be legit” but it’s still new enough that the general public isn’t attuned to it.

That’s why that’s the angle the news channels take with it.

[smcin]

Wonder what a GenAI poster based on a description of Fyre Festival looks like...

[kzrdude]

Seeing how the organizer handed actors AI-written scripts, he obviously has a problem where he thinks AI can replace everything, including his own or others' hard work. I don't know what the right words are but someone needs to give him a wake-up call that AI is not going to be his ticket to not having to work for the rest of his life.

[jbjbjbjb]

You can see from the decor that no effort was made on anything. The problem here is someone trying to make a quick buck not AI itself.

[creshal]

These kinds of scammers have tried to substitute hard work with literally anything they can get their hands on for their entire lives and never learn. They'll keep trying with whatever they can get their hands on.

[hef19898]

But the guy on Youtube promised me that AI generated content would make me rich? /s

[Cthulhu_]

Where are they blaming AI? They're just pointing out that the fellow behind this has a history of making books and artwork using AI, and using it to scam people. The mistake he made is overestimating AI and his own ability to bullshit around it.