Last year, Jesse Cunningham — a self-described “SEO specialist who leverages the power of AI to drive real results” — appeared in a livestream for a closed members group for SEO secret-trading. He’d been invited to discuss his AI strategies for monetizing content on Facebook, where he claimed to have found financial success by flooding the Meta-owned platform with fake, AI-generated images of things like faux houseplants and ChatGPT-created recipes. “Don’t ban me, people,” Cunningham jokes into a large microphone, explaining that one of his AI pages had previously been flagged by Meta for violating platform policies after he revealed its name in a public-facing YouTube video. Cunningham explains that his preferred groups to target are devoted fandoms and the elderly. The former is easily excited, he posits, while the latter probably won’t understand that what they’re clicking on is synthetic at all. “Best are voracious fan bases. Fan boys, fan girls,” Cunningham tells the group. “And an older demographic, where Aunt Carol doesn’t really know how to use Facebook, and she’s just likely to share everything.” “I’m going after audience 50-plus female,” he reiterates, explaining that targeting older women on Facebook means his content can be cross-posted over on the aspirational image-sharing-and-sourcing platform Pinterest, the userbase of which is overwhelmingly made up of women. “Why am I going after females? Because… I want to cross-pollinate the audience,” says Cunningham. “I want to kill two birds with one stone and dominate Pinterest and Facebook at the same time. Fifty-plus female is…Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women