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Florida man says his wife ‘wants a divorce’ after he lost $45,000 on an AI-generated Elon Musk car scam (www.independent.co.uk)

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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/56223456

George Hendricks, a 69-year-old from Leesburg, a suburb of Orlando, told ClickOrlando he lost $45,000 after a scammer targeted him with a deepfake video of Musk. Deepfakes are digitally-altered videos often used to impersonate notable public figures.

Now, Hendricks tells the outlet that his wife “wants to get a divorce” over the scam.

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[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Pfft, I would divorce my husband if he fell for a Musk grift, and it has nothing to do with gold digging. It would, however, mean that my husband kept hidden for a long time (which is impressive, I gotta say) just how big of a fucking moron he is and I won't be married to that. And he should be avoiding anything to do with Musk like the plague anyway.

Also, it would mean that he made the decision to throw away a bunch of money without even talking to me about it (because I would veto the hell out of it), which means he's an asshole.

Both good reasons to divorce someone imo.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But would you marry an idiot in the first place?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Seriously? Idiots do very well with women.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

It’s true.

But could it be that idiot men do well with idiot women?

[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

No, that's why I said it would be impressive to hide it this long. :p