NSFW tag please. It’s all naked.

this is such an easy photo editing job…

An ARG is basically a cryptic internet art project, where fans come together and solve it. “Nicoles” messages are VERY unlikely to be connected to one, though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game

Probably not something I’d do. This is likely to be harassment against the person in the picture, and given that there seemingly are addresses and phone numbers of that person floating around, I wouldn’t want to do that publicly. Or privately for that matter. It’s almost just stalking.

You’re right, it really is a complicated thing, and I’m still unsure on how to deal with this… The main goal right now is to find ways to stop this spam from happening, as well as imforming lemmy users about how the scam might work. I’m not fond of the whole community publicly collaborating to dox the person in the images behind this. (Or even the spammer, on that matter.)

If we ever get to know what this is about, I’d love to do this…

This looks much more like real, unintentional webcam shots rather than AI, imo

Possibly, but I think there was also proof provided by multiple people that it is real. I think it’s not only in the messages, but also on the matrix server.

Looks like an actual nice program. I’m a big FOSS advocate myself, but I still use some other software for convenience’s sake.

I suppose you can.

Possibly, but I think this is off the table since they added crypto addresses

Not FOSS sadly, but this is FigJam on figma.com.

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I’m just questioning how an obvious spam bot could gain trust in that way. I don’t think anybody trusted her.

I’d hope so…

This is such a strange development, even though it was obvious. So were all the messages before, without the crypto adresses, just to “gain trust”?

Oh wow. So it is a pig butchering scam after all? It might still be a harassment campaign too, though.

Oh wow. It’s becoming almost unreadable.

Trans-Gurke?