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"Fixel Smith" is an AI-generated person, with an article that has very little to do with fraud analysis. 'This' is also a music artist (1), novelist (2), fraud analyst (3), influencer (4), and whatever else you can imagine.

220+ points and 70 comments, and very few notice it's quite a fake post — and no one that it's an AI generated person?

1. https://www.amazon.it/Forged-Soundtrack-Explicit-Fixel-Smith...

2. https://fixelsmith.com

3. https://analytics.fixelsmith.com/

4. https://www.instagram.com/fixeltales/

I could imagine a person having or doing all of these over time, people do have many interests, but a cursory glance does give an impression of AI. The Instagram account uses a lot of it at least, and the top domain was likely made in conjunction with AI, given the style.

Kind of fascinating, though it could still be a person doing this using AI as opposed to an entirely generated persona. Thanks for bringing it up.

A cursory glance does make it appear like either a prolific individual, or a bot. The fact that the novel bears little relation to the analytics posts, which seem to bear the style of LLM prose, makes the whole thing fishy. Ironic given the subject matter of TFA

I'd be more surprised to hear that most folks made a habit of investigating the people whose articles we read. To be honest, I usually don't even look at the byline, let alone the rest of the website.