The 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India got some money from his parents, but he says he spent most of it subsidizing his licensing exams, and he’s still saving up to hopefully emigrate to the US after graduation. So he started searching for ways to make additional money online.

Sam, who requested a pseudonym to avoid jeopardizing his medical career and immigration status, tried a few things, with varying degrees of legitimacy and success. He made YouTube shorts and sold study notes to other med students. It wasn’t until he started scrolling through his Instagram feed that he landed on an idea: Why not make an AI-generated girl using Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro and sell bikini photos of her online?

But when Sam started posting generic photos of a beautiful, scantily clad woman on Instagram, he was dismayed to find that none of the content was hitting. He turned to Gemini for advice. “If you create a generic ‘hot girl,’ you’re competing with a million other models,” it said, according to a transcript Sam provided to WIRED.

Sam says he presented Gemini with a few possible options to help his model stand out, and the chatbot selected one in particular: the “MAGA/conservative niche,” referring to it as a “cheat code.” Plus, it said, “the conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal.” (A representative for Gemini said, “Gemini is designed not to give a particular opinion unless you tell it to. Instead, it is designed to offer neutral responses that don't favor any political ideology or viewpoint.”)

So last January, Sam created Emily Hart, a registered nurse and Jennifer Lawrence look-alike. On an Instagram account for Emily, @emily_hart.nurse, Sam posted photos of her ice fishing, drinking Coors Light, and shooting off a few rounds at the rifle range, with emoji-laden captions like “If you want a reason to unfollow: Christ is king, abortion is murder, and all illegals must be deported,” and “POV: You were assigned intelligent at birth, but you identify as liberal <clown emoji>.”

Though Sam has never lived in the United States, he became an assiduous student of MAGA ideology. “Every day I’d write something pro-Christian, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, anti-abortion, anti-woke, and anti-immigration,” he tells me.The grift seemed almost too obvious, but to Sam’s astonishment, he says the account “blew up.”

“Every Reel I posted was getting 3 million views, 5 million views, 10 million views. The algorithm loved it.” he claims. Within a month, Emily Hart had more than 10,000 Instagram followers, many of whom also subscribed to her softcore AI-generated content on the OnlyFans competitor Fanvue. And between Fanvue subscriptions and selling MAGA-themed T-shirts (one sample message reads ”PTSD: Pretty Tired of Stupid Democrats”), Sam estimates he was making a few thousand dollars a month.

“I was spending maybe 30 to 50 minutes of my day, and I was making good money for a medical student,” he says. “In India, even in professional jobs, you can't make this amount of money. I haven’t seen any easier way to make money online.”

MAGAs are typically old AF. Using AI is like shooting fish in a barrel with that demographic

most fb videos, posts, pags and instagrams are now full on fake ai. Funny, during covid social media all about fake news and factr check.

now they don't gaf. You can literally post anything fake anmd they don't care. why social media is now so garbage.

We need to stop all immigration from India for the next decade at least.

Well this sort of thing wouldn't work on liberal men because they're all gay

srs question for OP. How do you know THIS story is true? As far as I can tell it's just words and pictures on a screen, could easily be as fake as Emily Hart.

Only made thousands, only helping him pay for school, not all of it. That's low their Indian scamming. His father is much ashamed.

Said he tried a liberal version and it failed. He should have just made her have more tats and have a penis and the liberal men would have been all over it.

Some guys are creating ai models and not even being deceitful about it. They are acknowledging the girls are ai and putting up a disclaimer…. and get this guys still pay for this shit!!

You literally have dudes paying other men for ai nudes and companionship.

The big platform they are using is called fanvue. It’s like only fans but ai content is allowed.

Damn medical school is only a couple thousand dollars in India?

Long article so I understand you didn’t read it but stopping immigration from India wouldn’t have done anything in this instance. He did this all from northern India lol

“Though Sam has never lived in the United States, he became an assiduous student of MAGA ideology. “Every day I’d write something pro-Christian, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, anti-abortion, anti-woke, and anti-immigration,” he tells me.The grift seemed almost too obvious, but to Sam’s astonishment, he says the account “blew up.”

I read it. He wants to immigrate here in the future.

Looks like Im the one who didn’t read the entire article lmao

Fuck

I'll never understand these peoples. I understand if your a boomer and you fall for that shit... but guys my age and younger who grew up with the internet are buying into this shit... like when the video is clearly an AI girl and guys will be in the comments like "You're beautiful" and ect comments thinking they are talking to the girl directly

Instagram needs to do what Twitter did. On Twitter you can see the account location, so you know if it's coming from India.

How hard is this to do for extra money?

I seen some very obvious AI Instagram accounts getting spammed


They are right you need a gimmick. This could be real, IDK if his specific story but I see a lot of AI insta accounts now

Mirin srs

Work the marks