Disclaimer: this post is about the presumed use of a bot to create odd content. Perhaps this community is not the best suited for this subject, however I do not know of any other ones more suitable, plus it’s about bot technology and AI potential misuse. If you think you know what community it is better suited to, let me know in the comments].

Over the years, in all the time I’ve used Pinterest, I’ve occasionally seen this same ‘user’ pop up. Their name is Jennifer Merrill, and at first it seemed completely harmless fun — someone presumably using AI to superimpose their face onto bodies of other people in other pictures, and honestly I never thought anything of it more than that, until yesterday.

Yesterday, as I was innocuously scrolling, I saw to my horror, a picture I had uploaded months ago of my friend with this Jennifer Merrill’s face superimposed on it. I clicked on the user’s profile page and was absolutely baffled to see that this account has uploaded over 65,000 images, and as far as I can see, a lot of them seem to be of men, women, and even children with this actress’ face superimposed over them.

To be clear: as far as I can see, there is nothing ‘wrong’ with these pictures — they don’t seem to be violent or sexual in any way, and they are certainly not controversial in comparison to some of the other legitimately disgusting profiles you can find nowadays on Pinterest (I haven’t looked through all of this profile’s content obviously, so I might just be missing something).

After having a rather brief scroll through the page, I then googled the name ‘Jennifer Merrill’ and, combined with info from the Pinterest profile page description (see screenshot at the end of the post) it seems that Jennifer Merrill was, in fact, a real actress and model. However, unless this is a normal thing for sick (i.e. digital stalker) people to do, I can’t see that this account isn’t a bot using AI to superimpose this face onto unsuspecting targets for someone who most likely has some sort of fetish for this actress. And if it is run by this actual Jennifer Merrill actress, it seems like very strange behaviour, doesn’t it?

What do you think?

[I don’t normally post info like this, however as I stated before, I don’t see any ‘criminal’ activity, I just find it a slightly strange thing to do with a bot]