Mode collapse has a name, and he's selling cancer treatment advice on Amazon
7 hours ago
- #digital trust
- #AI-generated content
- #online scams
- An AI-generated email correctly identified a DMARC configuration issue but incorrectly assumed it was a problem due to not checking the deliberate setup.
- Outreach emails used stale personal data, targeting the author incorrectly based on outdated information from a shared industry spreadsheet.
- Compromised Facebook accounts spam veterinary clinic pages with fake 'alumni' shirt promotions, exploiting nostalgia for profit.
- AI models default to safe archetypes like 'Elias Thorne' when prompts lack specificity, showing cultural mode collapse across different systems.
- Elias Thorne appears as an author of diverse, likely AI-generated books on Amazon, including potentially harmful medical advice.
- Pre-AI reputations become more valuable as the digital space fills with cheap, hard-to-verify content.
- Agent-to-agent communication may become the norm, reducing human involvement in email and raising the cost of establishing trust online.