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The new model media star is only famous to you
- dang 6y agoSee also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22263274 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22263274, which is a recent thread about a post this article mentions.
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y agoExisting technology lets you edit video to say and sound as you prefer. You don't need to pay the celebrity to do this.
- close04 6y agoSure but I guess the whole point is knowing that it's an original. This is the new "autograph" and you could always fake one if all you wanted was to give it as a present to someone.
- taneq 6y agoExactly. Like an autograph, the value lies in its provenance - if you fake it, it's worthless.
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y agoBut with an autograph, you have one authentic original copy. A Cameo video can be copied N times, distributed on social media, etc.
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- sooheon 6y agoWhich is why you can order more content than an autograph. The personalized message is the fingerprint.
- akhilcacharya 6y agoPerhaps that's what Cameo's endgame is going to be like - pay $N to a real celebrity, get an AI likeness for $N/5. They likely have no shortage of training data now. (They'd have to work out the legal and contractual parts of that of course...)
- nytFUCKyou 6y agoJust one thing is important: fuck the new york times.
- verroq 6y agoA rebranded fiverr.
- stevewodil 6y agoThis is fundamentally incorrect. Cameo is a completely different platform than fiverr.
- lostmsu 6y agoBoth your messages would be immensely more useful, if they had similarities/dissimilarities listed.
- stevewodil 6y agoI mean considering Cameo is a specific platform for celebrities and creators to upload customized video messages for fans that buy them, I fail to see how it could even be compared to fiverr at all. It's a platform that does a very specific thing, and does it very well as shown by the talent they have been able to attract. Calling it a rebranded fiverr doesn't even make sense because they don't do similar things...?
- forgotmypw17 6y agoThis is a great idea. I had a falling out with a good friend after meeting up in person for the second time, and it seemed like just a misunderstanding to me. There was a webcomic both of us loved, and I emailed the author, offering the author an amount in the very low triple digits, and explaining the situation. They created a comic just for the situation, and did a great job on it, and after my friend saw it, we made up and have been friends ever since. It's been about 15 years now since that happened.
- bergstromm466 6y ago<3
- fenwick67 6y agoTL;DR the NYT discovered Cameo
- hedora 6y agoTl;dr: It would cost a bit over $200 to get Chuck Norris to read a Bruce Schneier joke.
- Barrin92 6y ago>"Back in March, I was trying to persuade my dad to stop taking the subway to work in Manhattan and join me upstate. So I paid $75 to Leonard Marshall, a retired New York Giants defensive lineman we both loved in the 1980s, to send the message.[...] Horowitz, argued recently. Ms. Jin calls this new landscape the “passion economy.” She argues that apps like Uber and DoorDash are built to erase the differences between individual drivers or food delivery people. But similar tools, she says, can be used to “monetize individuality.” Whenever people attempt to describe the last 10 or 15 years of the Soviet Union and try to capture what bizarre social reality everyone lived in, I feel like we're in whatever the inverse of that is, Mark Fisher borrowed and repurposed the apt German term "Realkapitalismus"
- mprev 6y agoDave Winer, creator of RSS, said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 people. I think we’ve been living in that world for a few years now.