Gonna post this here because it's about AI.
Meet Emily Hart, the patriotic blonde nurse who loved guns, Coors Light, and posting fire takes about how liberals were basically the enemy. She racked up millions of followers with content like "Christ is king, abortion is murder, and all illegals must be deported." The only problem? Emily Hart does not exist. She was built using Google's Gemini AI by a 22 year old orthopedic surgery student from northern India named Sam, who told Wired he just needed to pay his tuition bills.
Here is where it gets almost poetic. Sam consulted Gemini on how to make money, and according to a transcript obtained by Wired, the chatbot called targeting maga conservatives a "cheat code," telling him that older conservative men had more disposable income and were more loyal than liberal followers. Google disputed that characterization, but Sam ran with it anyway. "Every day I'd write something pro-Christian, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, anti-woke, and anti-immigration," he said. And it exploded. "The algorithm loved it. Every reel I posted was getting 3 million views, 5 million views, 10 million views." He eventually moved to a Fanvue paywall selling AI generated images and was pulling in thousands of dollars a month.
The whole thing is a perfect little mirror held up to a certain corner of the internet.
Sam tried building a liberal version of Emily and said it flopped because progressives spotted the AI content too fast. The MAGA crowd? Not so much. "The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people, like super dumb people. And they fall for it," Sam told Wired. Oh, and after he is done with medical school, Sam plans to emigrate to the United States, the same country he was telling his followers to keep immigrants out of.
