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vova_hn2yesterday at 3:02 PM0 repliesview on HN

In addition to what the other comments said ("WHOIS information for the domain shows it's registered in the Philippines"[0] etc), the "hospital bed" picture is blatantly AI-generated. If you zoom on his face, you can see that it looks extremely unnatural.

I suspect that someone's running a script that looks for public (-ish, Eugene has a Wikipedia page at least) figures without active social media presence and creates fake donation websites with AI-generated texts and pictures.

If my suspicion is correct, this is one of the most evil scams I can imagine.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801838