AI has turned the internet into a scammer's playground
Everything is an AI scam now
David Ralph Lewis catalogs the absurd AI-generated ads flooding YouTube — tai chi that makes you ripped, glasses that adapt to any prescription, a USB stick promising unlimited free internet — and the phishing emails that now quote his own book back at him. Platforms accept anything as long as someone pays, and scammers only need a tiny hit rate to profit. Vigilance is exhausting, but he sees little chance the big platforms will turn off the money tap.
It's like we have collectively decided that AI is inevitable, and the cost is the breakdown of truth itself.