Taryn Wright

lagging behind the technology.

Like the, there's something has to be done with these terrible people that are stealing pictures on the internet.

And it's like, really?

Like, again, I'm sure you and I could talk about prison reform and stuff all day long.

And, um, you know, like it's supposed to be, you know, like a punishment that improves the person, right?

Like what, what improves this person by sitting in prison for taking somebody's picture, you know, like, come on.

I mean, I think I got out of the business at the right time, honestly.

I loved pouring through a 300-page blog and looking for inconsistencies.

But yeah, now AI, holy mackerel.

And again, it's normalized that people are lying on the internet then.

I had a I think the year that I started the blog, the catfish movie came out and like a Huffington Post writer actually came to my house for two days to watch the movie together with me to like see what I thought of the movie.

I mean, that's how not.

heard of it was then, you know, like it wasn't this problem that we all like knew about.

Um, it was pretty new.

And, um, now, I mean, like for a while I thought, okay, everything's video, like it's going to be harder for people to fake stuff.

But I had hoaxers that shaved their heads.

I had hoaxers that bought medical equipment and wheelchairs online and, and snuck into an ER and, and, you know, like took pictures of themselves with like a vitals machine.

I mean, there's, there's all sorts of things people will do, um, to get attention and,

because of their sickness or because of whatever.

Um, I don't think it's going away.