[jvanderbot]

I always found these types of things particularly creepy. Scaled up to human level, imagine a creature that trolls around luring you with visually-convincing mates only to eat you.

Bram Stoker's Dracula had a particularly good bodyhorror version of this in the multi-bodied "Woman".

[latexr]

> Scaled up to human level, imagine a creature that trolls around luring you with visually-convincing mates only to eat you.

You mean like television ads showing scantily clad women to get you to spend all your income on <insert product here>? Looks like the spider learned from us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJWEJuKXZyk

[chongli]

If a spider is doing anything, there’s a safe bet that it’s been doing that thing for thousands or millions of years. Spiders are extremely successful and they’ve occupied countless niches as they’ve been around for 380 million years.

[latexr]

It was a joke. I don’t really believe (nor did I expect anyone to think that) spiders have been observing humans watching adverts on TV, following them around to understand the socio-economic ramifications of that, then hatching a plan to catch other insects based on observations.

[ImHereToVote]

Please don't upset the spergs. Just say. "Oh yeah, I didn't think of that". We need them to stay here to solve our SQL queries.

[yvely]

You basically just described ads, although poetically (: Edit: after having read the article i want to change ads to "ads, influencers, and pyramid schemes"

[bitwize]

There's a great movie called Under the Skin about this very topic. Featuring Scarlett Johansson no less.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Skin_(2013_film)

When I saw it I also thought of the Australian beetles that hump beer bottles until they die, because the size, color, and texture of the beer bottle resemble a particularly sexy female beetle and they just can't help themselves.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

It's called a "superstimulus" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus

[lawlessone]

>When I saw it I also thought of the Australian beetles that hump beer bottles until they die,

The human equivalent might be an AI generated image of woman(or man) so attractive they cant exist.

[bil7]

there are many human males that turn to the bottle instead of women. Don't be so mean to the beetles!

[wcoenen]

If you replace "eat you" by "financially ruin you", that's pretty much what pig butchering scams are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam

[Keyframe]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic_(film)

[psiops]

And to add insult to injury, the decoy mate turns out to be a sucker like you mind-controlled to act like the very thing he was pursuing...