Comment on AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans

TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • cuchilloc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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”.

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      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The loss of influencers more than makes up for the loss of photographers, newscasters, models, translators, and writers.

        /s

        Every job I mentioned isn’t speculation. Some of those have already been replaced by AI.

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    • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • voidMainVoid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t understand your comment, especially the last sentence. Who thinks that celebrities are their friends?

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      • eatthecake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Despite the label, neurotypicals are not all the same.

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Don’t make fun of the NTs, if nothing else we need someone who can deal with air compressor noises.

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    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Nacktmull@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think you are underestimating the cognitive dissonance of most consumers.

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