Brazilian man sells belongings to meet online partner, finds she was AI-generated

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A Brazilian man sold all his possessions and travelled more than 1,200 miles to meet the woman he planned to marry. The 49-year-old, Edimar Martins, learned that the person he had been courting was an AI-generated figure featured on a TikTok account with roughly 300,000 followers. Having run out of money, he was helped to get back home. He says he still hopes to find love.

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