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I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me

https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/
12•robin_reala•2h ago

Comments

jwr•28m ago
If we write content for closed platforms known to do terrible things, I guess we should not be surprised when said platforms do terrible things.

I keep trying to convince people not to use Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter/X, but I'm not getting anywhere.

Write your own content and post it on your own terms using services that you either own or that can't be overtaken by corporate greed (like Mastodon).

pmlnr•13m ago
So many thoughts on this...

The platforms and their convenience that one "only" has to write the post yet the internet needs so much metadata, so it tried to autogenerate it, instead of asking for it. People are put off by need to write a bloody subject for an email already, imagine if they were shown what's actually the "content" is.

About convincing: get the few that matters on deltachat, so they don't need anything new or extra - it's just email on steroids.

As for Mastodon: it's still someone else's system, there's nothing stopping them from adding AI metadata either on those nodes.

saubeidl•12m ago
Why deltachat, an app I've never heard of before instead of Signal, which is also open source and at least has a bit of traction?
nunobrito•5m ago
Not even knowing what deltachat is, however Signal was suspected from the start of being developed by the NSA (read the story about the founder and the funding from the CIA) and later received tens of million USD each year from the US government to keep running. So it is never advisable option when the goal is to acquire some sense of privacy.
darkwater•5m ago
The OP is also on Mastodon already, but social networks are ruled by their gravity well, unfortunately.
throw-12-16•18m ago
who announces a divorce?
saubeidl•16m ago
Divorcees.
throw-12-16•14m ago
Is it like a gender reveal where they pop a balloon that says "I cheated!"?
nusl•5m ago
did you read the article?
tectec•9m ago
Did you read the article?
throw-12-16•3m ago
No, the site is unreachable
wulfstan•5m ago
It's not uncommon. My cousin sent out a Christmas card announcing her divorce - I think it stops a lot of 1-1 conversations with people which can be quite draining when you're already pretty raw.
CrzyLngPwd•4m ago
Surely, if the slop is generated by looking at the image and the text, then it seems someone could manipulate it into hallucinating all manner of wonderful things.
Alex2037•3m ago
just this article alone contains more than enough hints as to why did the husband decide to cut his losses. jfc.

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