AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans::Brands are turning to hyper-realistic, AI-generated influencers for promotions.
Oh no. People who use their good looks to push lifestyles that are unattainable are suffering the smallest bit of inconvenience. Oh no.
Or they’re just not good enough and there are prettier ones out there? God forbis Rachel’s only fans isn’t top because maybe she’s not that good at showing her pussy? Like anything in life, competition is a bitch.
Liking somebody for looks and such behavior only is not worse or better than disliking somebody for looks and such behavior only.
Ok?
If that meant that you don’t get my comment, then:
Gloating is bad.
It’s not a bad thing that someone could live fancy without killing people or stealing or embezzling funds in some administrative position, or something of the listed indirectly.
Various shitcoin schemes go here too.
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What could you possibly say that got removed by mods?
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bunch honestly
Web designers?
my problem with it is that we may be next
And? Go ahead and automate my job. I will find something else to do with my life. Good luck btw my work is a bit more complicated than pretending to be famous and harassing restaurants for free food until I am 30 fat or both.
they are experimentally automating lawyers and doctors already, complexity is not the determining factor here.
what is that something else in life you are going to do when they start pitching us to compete against machines? i can bet my ass on the fact they will use it to devalue human labour as much as possible, and most people cant afford to survive as is.
Who are those “they” always refered? Isn’t it that the humanity is doing all for this?
in this specific case “they” are tech corporations, tech ceos and their respective shareholders which might include a part of the global burgeoise.
i think this tech would be used much differently if the rest of the knowledgeable people in humanity had a say/vote on it, besides financial interest.
The “they” are the wealthy executives and investors doing whatever they can to optimize every single penny into their pockets
In a way it is “the humanity doing it to themselves”, but they sure aren’t asking the average worker how they feel about it, or letting them have any easier time because of it. If enough work is automated, they’d rather fire people and have one person work for two while the second person starves.
Cool. So it’s been 8 hours. How far have “they” progressed? Do I still have to go to work on Tuesday?
Sorry the influencer you follow can’t get free stuff anymore.
You are naive to think stuff like this will change overnight. And you might be if you think you are getting singled out and spared.
I don’t follow influencers nor do I have any traditional social media.
It’s a well-known fact that most people think that all jobs can be automated except their own. Well, I’m distorting it a bit to extremes.
As for me, I know my job can be automated. Actually, I’m automating it a bit to make fewer mistakes and give fewer fucks. And I know that eventually there may not be a need for me if I don’t change levels.
Fields and professions are persistent, particular roles humans perform in them are not.
Go ahead! What part of me inviting you did you not grasp?
Mixed up comments probably.
Anyway, to you my question is - why do you think such a migration would work? You are older than when you entered your current profession. And it’s a competitive system, another people would have more experience than you.
That isn’t your concern really, it is mine. Now how is it going with it? Am I going to work on Tuesday?
Damn, what a shame, those poor poor influencers
maybe they need to get an actual job now?
I mean, someone like Hatsune Miku already existed before. It’s just (slightly) more mainstream now. The only issue with “virtual influencers” is how straightforward the owners are in admitting that their product is AI.
People who won the genetic lottery are angry that they can’t milk their attractive appearence for money anymore.
Well, that’s too bad.
It’s generous to call influencers human.
I chuckled at this but I would like to point out that we shouldn’t dehumanize influencers. They are just as human as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
Wait…
And thus social media has reached its apex.
After a decade plus of bombarding people with a mix of whatever they desire most and whatever causes them to become emotionally invested to the point of exhaustion, we see the pinnacle innovation of social media:
A literally completely fake person selling overpriced fashion I guarantee was made in a sweatshop, that nearly no one viewing ‘her’ can afford or look good in, who receives many thirsty comments praising her as if ‘she’ will be their friend or something, who in the process of doing all this also puts out of business actual human models who are simply fake in every sense of the word that is not literal.
It is basically the most perfectly capitalist thing I can imagine. Everyone loses except the capital owners.
I mean sure, maybe it will get some people whose entire personality is “I am pretty, worship me!” to think about doing something actually useful or learning and developing a real personality.
But… we are fairly far into the predicted cyberpunk dystopia now. No its not exactly as predicted, but shockingly close in many ways.
The average consumer of content cannot tell a bot or a fake person such as Aitana here from a real one, and there will just be another after news of Aitana in particular gets around.
At this point I would say that most humans have basically failed a reverse Turing Test.
Yeah, we really are steamrolling right into a cyberpunk dystopia, aren’t we? Well, if we can even include the world “punk” there. It might as well just be cyber-capitalism in the end.
I disagree with the word “capitalist”, but in emotion and general sense you nailed it.
Just a bit sad we’re as a planet navigating Lem’s “The Megabit Bomb” and of course “Summa Technologiae” so slowly.
I mean sure, maybe it will get some people whose entire personality is “I am pretty, worship me!” to think about doing something actually useful or learning and developing a real personality.
You’d be surprised.
It’s not AI stealing the business from humans. It’s men stealing the business from women
The men AI are stealing all the women AI jobs!
Do you think women are too stupid to use AI image generators or something? Fuck off with that 1950s attitude.
A good chunk of influencer women? Probably, but id say the same for their male counterparts.
No. But just look how things are. It’s how today’s society is, and it’s not going to change if you forbid observing it. Right now, most camera users are female and most AI users are male. So you fuck off
It’s alright, I get it. You have a very sexist mindset and think using image generators is a man’s job. Sitting around and looking pretty is a woman’s job.
Grow up.
Oh no, those poor influencers … anyway …
First they came for the influencers, and I did not speak out, because I’m not an influencer…
There are some things I won’t be disappointed to see replaced by automation. Transitions are not well managed in this regard (retraining is expensive after all), but many jobs I feel should be automated because they suck. Not really sure where influencers fall on this scale… Can’t imagine it’s great for your mental health.
Give them some talent and they’re essentially movie actors. It’s just another form of entertainment and as little as I care about influencers this won’t stop with them. Anyone that appears on camera is fair game to be replaced.
Better than AI influencers
I think that’s a true unpopular opinion there. Not bad, not bad at all.
Thanks, I’ll not be here all day
In what way?
Coz influencers can be people lucking into it, with AI influencers it’s mostly going to be brands cutting out the middlemen and making more money and reducing any chance of people receiving consequences of their actions as they can just delete that AI influencer and create a new one, whereas any human influencer will suffer the consequences even if very little for their actions
Whoah there: Who says AI influencers aren’t the result of individual’s honest work? You don’t need an entire data center of computers to make your own AI influencer!
Don’t assume there’s a corporation behind every AI persona. It could just be one guy with a lot of VRAM getting creative with prompts in his parent’s basement.
Well they are products of the tech industry, so they are inherently not honest or ethical.
Ah yes. Like that damn internet and those cursed devices people use to access it. Anyone using those is inherently not honest or ethical.
The internet is the worst mistake in human history. I’m surprised you’d use that as your example.
What makes you think they can’t (and don’t) just fire a human influencer and hire a new one whenever they feel like it now?
I did expect that, still better than AI influencers no? Even if by a tiny bit.
Your anti-AI prejudice is showing.
I’ll remember to take your words into consideration SatansMaggotyCumFart
Right cuz blaming lobbyists and ad campaigns… that’s totally worked out for tobacco, guns, pharma and vehicle companies looking to shirk any accountability.
How so?
How about none at all? But you’re probably right that real ones are better than ai. Although ai might be more ethical than some
Sounds like
RickSubway is out of a job.This seems like a short term problem.
If marketing agencies move to AI influencers, the consumer will slowly catch on and move away from it.
Why?
People like influencers because they want to emulate their style and want essentially word of mouth recommendations on things. There’s an element of cognitive dissonance to recognizing they’re just a different form of advertising, and I would think that once that loses its human element, that won’t be as appealing to consumers who enjoy influencers.
The fact people watch influencers gives me no hope they wouldn’t react similarly to an AI influencer. I haven’t heard of any law that requires content creators to mention the use of AI and if there was such a law it would probably get fulfilled by a microscopic blurp at the bottom of the page that nobody reads.
You have a point. But one could equally well predict that influencers - or celebrities in general - lose their appeal once people understand that they are not really their friends. The neurotypical mind simply seems not to be wired that way.
Despite the label, neurotypicals are not all the same.
Don’t make fun of the NTs, if nothing else we need someone who can deal with air compressor noises.
I don’t understand your comment, especially the last sentence. Who thinks that celebrities are their friends?
I guess it’s answered. On some level, our brain decides that some perfect strangers are friends or family. How else would one explain that we follow gossip about the lives and relationships of people that we, almost certainly, will never meet?
It seems reasonable to me that you could admire somebody without thinking that they’re a friend or family. That’s what being a fan is. Some of the more extreme fans are going to want to know intimate details about the object of their admiration. I don’t see how it’s different from any other obsessive hobbyist.
That’s probably true in some contexts. But how many, EG, Raspberry Pi enthusiasts know the name of the senior engineer, let alone their relationship status?
I’m sure you can admire someone’s music or writing without caring one bit about their personal life. But I don’t think you could say the same about an actor. What’s more important for your life: movies or smartphones? So why do we know the names of so many actors but not scientists or engineers?
Not sure if “friend” is quite the right word, but parasocial interaction is extremely common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
Everybody so afraid of IA turns out it can heal us. Hopefully more people will realize the absurdity of an influencer instead of just trending from AI influencer to “let’s go back to analog human influencers like in the old day”.
The loss of influencers more than makes up for the loss of photographers, newscasters, models, translators, and writers.
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Every job I mentioned isn’t speculation. Some of those have already been replaced by AI.
Same happened with every other piece of technology so far. Labour will continue to be replaced by machines. It’s up to us to live from the tools and not for them.
Refrigerators displaced milkmen, cars displaced carriage builders and horse farriers, and other various tools displaced manual laborers. Adoption of these advancements was slow and people often had time to upskill to something else, maybe in the technology that displaced them.
With AI we’re talking a massive displacement across the entirety of our economy. Teachers, actors, lawyers, accountants, programmers, chemists, therapists, writers, illustrators, and many more professions could be on the chopping block within a few years. Can all of these people get a job in data science? Ironically, I think the safest jobs (until AI robotics catches up) will be in the trades, one of the main things college goers are trying to avoid. Again, there are only so many toilets.
I think you are underestimating the cognitive dissonance of most consumers.
What’s funny to me, is AI generated content is virtually indistinguishable from heavily filtered content, but it cannot replicate a high resolution, untouched image.
So, obviously it’s putting influencers out of a job.
Wasn’t there a social media website that did a massive bot purge a while ago and most influencers found out that like 90+% of their audiences were actually bots anyway? sounds like this is just a logical conclusion and the rest of us can get on with our lives while bots entertain bots.
Whew. Skynet distracted itself from killing all humans.
AI recursive horny jail will save us all
That’s a business risk lmao
I prefer to think of it as leveling the playing field. You don’t have to be a 20 year old woman with the right face and body ratios to be an instagram model anymore. Anyone can! Seems like true equality to me.
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You just need to be a geek who can afford some 4090 and the software which produce the pretty lady.
You also need an eye for the right aesthetics and some marketing savvy, there’s lots of pretty girls who still don’t meet the cut for “influencer”. Granted, being pretty and having marketing savvy is a really good recipe for success, but it still makes no guarantees.
Good. Influencers are a plague.
