This is a linkpost for https://www.rationalistjudaism.com/p/the-other-sharks-out-there
Someone sent me this and I thought it fairly interesting:
TLDR: Fake AI generated law companies are searching for unattributed images on the internet, claiming they own them, and sending emails asking the user to add a link to their website. The aim is to increase their ranking in Google search to drive traffic to their (AI generated) website.
Yet another example of how the world is going to get steady wierder as signals we used to use for somebody putting in effort into something no longer apply.