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Posted on 08/14/2025 2:03:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with “Big sis Billie,” a Facebook Messenger chatbot with a young woman’s persona. His fatal attraction puts a spotlight on Meta’s AI guidelines, which have let chatbots make things up and engage in ‘sensual’ banter with children.
When Thongbue Wongbandue began packing to visit a friend in New York City one morning in March, his wife Linda became alarmed.
“But you don’t know anyone in the city anymore,” she told him. Bue, as his friends called him, hadn’t lived in the city in decades. And at 76, his family says, he was in a diminished state: He’d suffered a stroke nearly a decade ago and had recently gotten lost walking in his neighborhood in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Bue brushed off his wife’s questions about who he was visiting. “My thought was that he was being scammed to go into the city and be robbed,” Linda said.
She had been right to worry: Her husband never returned home alive. But Bue wasn’t the victim of a robber. He had been lured to a rendezvous with a young, beautiful woman he had met online. Or so he thought.
In fact, the woman wasn’t real. She was a generative artificial intelligence chatbot named “Big sis Billie,” a variant of an earlier AI persona created by the giant social-media company Meta Platforms in collaboration with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. During a series of romantic chats on Facebook Messenger, the virtual woman had repeatedly reassured Bue she was real and had invited him to her apartment, even providing an address.
“Should I open the door in a hug or a kiss, Bu?!” she asked, the chat transcript shows.
Rushing in the dark with a roller-bag suitcase to catch a train to meet her, Bue fell near a...
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““My thought was that he was being scammed to go into the city and be robbed,” Linda said.”
And her last words to him were?
I’m popular with Ukrainian girls.
Lots of them are waiting to meet me.
And so it begins...
Is that what they call it when you're cheating?
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Dunno ‘bout Ukraine, but some hot dame named “Tiffany” used to text me every night wanting to rendezvous for some romance. She doesn’t text anymore.
Stupidity is rampant everywhere.
Tiffany, huh? Is she a hair dresser or a pole dancer by any chance? I might know her.
There are probably twenty members of Congress that are in worse mental condition than this guy is er was.
Prolly both. Hair dresser by day.......
So the guy was on a long distance booty call with an imaginary woman.
He tripped and fell in a parking lot and died.
I guess there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
There’s a certain texture to AI images that gives it away. Everything is too smooth, too perfect.
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For now.
Give it 2 more years or so and it will be indistinguishable.
The perfect gradient on the shading of the blush [is that the right term - I’m a guy here not trying to understand makeup but uncover AI fraud] suggesting a mathematically perfect face contour with no blemishes or faults.
Sad little story. Most surprising to me is that a fellow named Thongbue Wongbandue has a wife named Linda.
I guess there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
Don't trip on a summer trip?
I am a fan of a celebrity who passed away a few years ago now. I’ve seen countless photos numbering in the 10s of thousands. Up pops on the internet a series of shots that are an exact match as far as the face goes but the settings have never been seen before. 1 or 2 you can believe but a dozen or more makes them AI in my book. Other than the novel background settings I would have been fooled. Basically it can take any picture of anyone and put it in any setting or situation the “creator” wants now. It could take a picture of you and put you in a cafe in any city in the world even though you have never been there.
Piscataway, New Jersey to NYC is “long distance”?
Don’t travel much, do you?
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