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.
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”.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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”.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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 Some of those have already been replaced by AI.
cuchilloc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
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.
voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t understand your comment, especially the last sentence. Who thinks that celebrities are their friends?
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Not sure if “friend” is quite the right word, but parasocial interaction is extremely common. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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?
eatthecake@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Despite the label, neurotypicals are not all the same.
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.
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.
Nacktmull@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I think you are underestimating the cognitive dissonance of most consumers.