Man they did that guy dirty. The headline and picture makes it look like he's the Lyft driver.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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Think about the amount of this shit that doesn't get caught. AI is just fraud tech. There's simply no aspect of it that doesn't involve deception and lies.
Gen-AI may as well be called "cuttting corners inaccurately machine 3000."
You're wrong. It's main purpose is legalized theft, so large companies can sell your work for profit.. and take credit
How?! When I did some driving a woman literally pissed herself laughing with her friends on the way to a club. I had to argue for weeks with several escalations to get the cleaning fee covered.
More ways to extract more money from you! More scams to look out for, constantly every single day.
Can't imagine why Americans are all on anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medication. What when you factor in predatory financial system, inflation/gouging, and permanent income instability.
The audacity of some people... I simply cannot comprehend it. I'd feel so ashamed of myself.
People see examples of assholes drifting all around them, especially in Florida.
When the king and his minstrels do it all day…
He's too busy being underpaid and fucked over by Lyft to care. I'm not saying he's right or a good person, but he's a transmission issue away from 0 profit.
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I wonder if this would have happened if he was paid a decent wage in the first place.
Probably, shitty people will act shitty regardless
Like with most crime, there is a significant economic basis
Moat people would be way less shitty if they had access to their basic needs.
I agree there will always be a small percentage of the population that will act asocially
Moat people would be way less shitty if they had access to their basic needs.
I'd argue that when you live in a society that values money above anything else, even having your basic needs covered would lead to this sort of behaviour
I agree there will always be a small percentage of the population that will act asocially
Good otherwise we wouldn't have anyone to be in government.
I don't think a poor relationship between an employer and employee is a good reason to try and scam random kids
Agreed we should blame the children
Yep exactly
Wtf, nobody is making him work at Lyft. “I am faking damage to my vehicle and charging riders false fees to supplement my income because my wage is crap.” is not acceptable. What a terrible take.
The other guy didn't say it was OK though, you're adding that part and then getting mad about it.
Fair point, the person I replied to didn’t explicitly say it was okay or that they said they felt it was ok. I took their comment as a kind of indirect victim blaming, similar to how you hear people say things like “I wonder if that would have happened if she was wearing something more conservative” — that’s a bad assumption on my part, and I appreciate your calling me out on it.
Um, okay? It isn't unreasonable for @anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca or anyone else to perceive it that way. "Maybe X wouldn't Y if Z wouldn't A" is always a classic logic chain putting the most blame on Z.
It could be a commentary on the type of people who gravitate towards jobs that don't provide enough compensation, Lyft certainly doesn't have that market cornered.
It's not an excuse just a statement of reality. A lot of crime is tied to economic stress
Sure feels like its not nobody when its "everybody" in the guise of societal murder if you don't work.
"If you're poor just get a better job bro. It's your own fault if you don't have a good job." What a terrible take.
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What a silly thing to say and think.
Is there some weird correlation between better morality and more money in your head?
Why aren't the billionaires paragons of virtue then?
Is there some weird correlation between better morality and more money in your head?
It's not weird. Desperate people do desperate things, so too little money can lead to compromised morals as can too much. Do you really not see that?
In some cases yes, but I don’t see that here. Compromises morals out of desperation (to me, anyway) manifest more along the lines of stealing food to feed your family or wage theft perhaps.
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There is a very strong correlation between poverty and crime. Are you not aware of that?
People that try to run scams often fall under the same profile as people that steal for the thrill of it. It's all about pulling one over on someone else, and the bonus is you get money out of the effort.
Trump gets paid a living wage, yet he still scams everyone on Earth. So right there your theory falls apart.
He should give his boss a real piece of his mind, then.
Depends. A lot of crime (in fact the majority of it) is driven by economic problems, but there's a not-insignificant amount of people who are just assholes and like making people look dumb.
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I saw this also on second hand items websites like ebay. They use the bots to edit the photo to pretend that they received a broken item And get a full refund.
IMHO it's trivial to solve: if the image has the genai watermarks (also the invisible like synthid), then the user it's permanently banned at the first offense
We all need body cams now, apparently
Pretty stupid scam there, Bert.
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