First they came for the influencers, and I did not speak out, because I’m not an influencer…
Comment on AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans
redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Oh no, those poor influencers … anyway …
the_ocs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
BluesF@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Better than AI influencers
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In what way?
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
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
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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?
riskable@programming.dev 10 months ago
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.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Right cuz blaming lobbyists and ad campaigns… that’s totally worked out for tobacco, guns, pharma and vehicle companies looking to shirk any accountability.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think that’s a true unpopular opinion there. Not bad, not bad at all.
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Thanks, I’ll not be here all day
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How so?
redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
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