Content Creator’s AI-Generated Facebook Posts Rake In $10K-Plus A Month

A Mississippi content creator says he is earning more than $10,000 a month by using artificial intelligence (AI) to help create fictional Facebook posts designed to spark outrage and drive engagement, The New York Post reports. Kvontay Devon Pringle, 26, operates five Facebook accounts featuring different types of content, according to the outlet. Pringle provided the outlet with screenshots of invoices and accounts indicating his content can generate as much as $17,000 a month, though the earnings have not been independently verified. One of Pringle’s recent posts featured an AI-generated image of a fictional boy named Kevin alongside a story claiming the child had been sent home from school for wearing a pleated skirt with his uniform. The post generated 8.2 million views and prompted widespread debate online. But the child and the incident were fabricated. Pringle said it took him about 10 minutes to create and publish the post. “It’s honestly wild to me that a story about a boy who doesn’t even exist became this massive conversation online,” Pringle told the outlet. “I think it shows how advanced AI has gotten, and how hard it can be for the average person to tell the difference.” Pringle said the post generated an estimated $2,800 through Meta, Facebook’s parent company. The outlet said it could not independently verify that figure. Some websites reported the fictional story as fact, raising concerns about how realistic AI-…