AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk - The Verge

The AI gurus told you to "just get started with AI." But they forgot to mention the industry is crawling with grifters. You bought the tool. Paid the monthly fee. Your team never touched it. That $20

The AI gurus told you to "just get started with AI."
But they forgot to mention the industry is crawling with grifters.

You bought the tool. Paid the monthly fee. Your team never touched it. That $200/month quietly dying in your subscriptions isn't a failure of judgment — it's the predictable result of an industry designed to confuse you into buying first and figuring it out later.

Here's what the Verge just exposed: AI is being weaponized to fake entire small business identities — fake owners, fake stories, fake credibility — just to move cheap dropship product. This isn't a tech story. It's a trust story.

And it matters to you because the same confusion that lets grifters thrive is the same confusion that got you sold a tool you didn't need.

The AI noise isn't going away. But you can filter it with one simple rule: if a vendor can't show you a real business result from a real implementation in your industry within 30 days, walk away.

That's not pessimism. That's a buying standard.

What's the worst AI purchase you've made — and what made you pull the trigger on it?

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Most of the accounts found by The Verge were created in the last two months and contain videos about small businesses owned by marginalized ...