A professional ‘AI rage baiter’ has admitted to earning over Rs 16.2 lakh ($17,000) per month by simply posting fake stories with elaborate captions and provocative pics. Kvontay Devon Pringle, a 26-year-old Mississippi digital creator, revealed that he recently impersonated a mother complaining about a school’s reaction to his son’s ‘inappropriate’ clothing.
In the caption. “I wasn’t going to post this but I am sick and tired of my son getting discriminated against! He went to 2nd grade. Well we were wrong. I let my children EXPRESS themselves,” Pringle wrote. As the social media debate intensified over the kind of clothes children should be wearing to school, Pringle made a bank, knowing he had invented Kevin, his mother, and the entire story using AI. “I think it shows how advanced AI has gotten, and how hard it can be for the average person to tell the difference.
Because of all the nice things we saw about the school, he was super excited to start this new school. In a post that has since garnered over 8.2 million views, Pringle posted a pic of a young boy called Kevin in a pleated skirt and a school uniform polo. My 7-year-old son started his new elementary school today.
Pringle, posing as the mother, said the child was sent home by his school for ‘inappropriate” attire. I got a text message today telling me to come get my son because he’s dressed “inappropriate”. “It’s honestly wild to me that a story about a boy who doesn’t even exist became this massive conversation online,” Pringle said. Pringle said he enjoyed using the internet to “emotionally pull on people” but added that his content was not made with the intention of deceiving or harming people.
