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Social media influencer/model created from AI lands 100 sponsorships
- Animats 5y agoHow long until GPT-4 plus virtual humans replace youtubers?
- rpcope1 5y agoI think the growing popularity of vtubers is probably a sign of things to come. I think once (if it's possible) you can synthesize natural sounding speech and basic emotions/behaviors, it wouldn't surprise me if that didn't become a huge amount of the market for video content.
- tartoran 5y agoWhy would anyone watch that? I thought that after all the infatuation with technology, power and wealth other humans are still what we need to connect with.. Why not shut oneself into a virtual world if virtual everything is what they want? I have the feeling that in the not too distant future there will be big labels on things stating “not virtual” like we’re getting now for organic/bio products
- sbierwagen 5y agoYou would be amazed at the stupid shit people watch. There's a surprisingly enormous Twitch segment of people who stream playing slots. No gameplay at all, just watching someone else clicking "go again" on a random number generator. Here's a slots streamer who apparently has 30 thousand live viewers right now: https://www.twitch.tv/trainwreckstv https://www.twitch.tv/trainwreckstv
- Seirdy 5y agoWe already have tons of vtubers who make no secret of using voice changers. Some, like Zentreya, use speech-to-text-to-speech for an artificial voice. If that sounds odd to you, I encourage you to check out her channel and compare with similar content from Twitch streamers; it's surprisingly easy to get used to and enjoy.
- navjack27 5y agoGecko army represent! Chaos!
- wiz21c 5y agoHopefully a GPT-4 would improve the overall quality of the vlogs :-)
- sergiotapia 5y agoVery cyberpunk - something I would expect to read in the pages of Transmetropolitan.
- kaladin-jasnah 5y agoThis is shockingly realistic (and perhaps a bit disturbing that a virtual model can generate so much interest). How do people create such virtual models that look so accurate and human-like?
- kkiinnpptt 5y agoUse a real person, tell everyone she's virtual to protect her privacy.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoGenius!
- NL807 5y agoBody is real. The face is synthetic and augmented onto the actress.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoThey claim AI, but it's probably just 3d modeling and texturing. Possibly based on a real person - see also characters like Aloy, or the ones from Death Stranding. Or the attempts in recent Star Wars media to bring back deceased actors or make them younger.
- leifg 5y agoI think this only works because of the novelty effect. A big reason why influencers or any kind of celebrity are successful is because enough people aspire to be like them. That's pretty hard to achieve for an AI.
- Barrin92 5y agoI think vtubers are a counterpoint to that argument. There's a lot of virtual avatar type celebrities on internet platforms in particular and they have had fanbases for a while. I also don't think people aspire to be like influencers in a 'real' sense. Influencers are hyperreal versions of something fans know they won't actually be, and in that sense artificial characters might even be more interesting.
- dmingod666 5y agoYes 'codemiko' looks like a good example of how the future will play out.
- queuep 5y agoI don’t know anything about influencers but why would people want to follow (more than for fun) someone that is AI generated? I mean an INFLUENCEr would be someone I aspire to be like. So if i follow a marathon athlete I’d like to be like her, do the same exercises etc. that would be impossible to mimic with a virtual marathon runner. Replace marathon with ‘coding’ or whatever hobby you have, and I’m sure you’ll find it weird as well
- sanxiyn 5y agoIf virtual influencers are travelling and taking pictures of themselves at cool places, you can certainly visit those places too. If they take pictures of food (very influencer-y thing to do), you can visit that restaurant and eat that food.
- fomine3 5y ago> I mean an INFLUENCEr would be someone I aspire to be like. It seems not necessary to be.
- laluser 5y agoFails to mention that 80% of the profits are coming from the AI's OnlyFans account. Just kidding. It's insane how many niches like this there are to make some quick money with available open source libraries, if you know what you're doing and you have some time on your side.
- albertshin 5y agoI understand where you're coming from in that the technical abilities to create something (someone?) like this may seem like a low barrier to entry. However, I disagree that this is "quick" money or just a fad. The value of this AI for sponsorships/ads comes more from a team of actual people that scan social media to search for trends, photo styles and carefully helps curate its presence. For example, look at how the first "photo" in the article is created. Notice how the AI isn't looking at the camera? Or how the perspective is somewhat tilted? Overall, the image has many subtle details also very in line with how many millienial/gen-Z Korean girls upload birthday photos from cafes on Instagram. It feels like Rozy represents a broader movement towards abstracting out the elements that make us resonate with a brand or image more. I think brand strategists and marketers have figured out that the model is more of a vessel to store and convey those elements/emotions and for particular types of ads there is no real need for the model to actually exist in reality. Think about how many ads where you don't know the model in any other context. Rozy probably adds more value than the nameless models in some sense because there's a persona/brand the team has built up in social media/other ads. Definitely not easy money.
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago>> Notice how the AI isn't looking at the camera? It's not an AI! :pulls pigtails:
- Cthulhu_ 5y ago> if you know what you're doing and you have some time on your side. Key point. The AI generated character is the medium; the vast majority of effort was put into the marketing and the "story" of this character.
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- pryce 5y agoFollowing trends like virtual humans is interesting, and honestly I don't know what things might look like with virtual humans in 15 or 20 years - but I do wish reporting took care not to veer into P.R. territory. EDIT: deleted a bit here as i misread the word sponsorship.
- alexanderjchun 5y agoThe article mentions scandals several times. Are scandals that common for celebrities in SK? They seem very confident in their ability to maintain their AI girl’s image. I wonder if they considered the Rule 34 folks.
- potatoman22 5y agoI know that, in some instances, things like idols publicly dating constitute as a scandal.
- petre 5y ago> Are scandals that common for celebrities in SK Oh yes. Everything is a scandal in such a competitive society, where cover ups are rampant just to avoid scalndal. Take this article about Seo Yea-ji for example: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3129818/seo-ye-jis-4-biggest-scandals-explained-accusations-its https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/31298... I think they are working to change the cover up culture, as it's almost always represented negatively in dramas.
- doublepg23 5y agoIn K-pop scandals are quite toxic. Radiolab did an episode on it https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/kpoparazzi https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/kpopa...
- shakna 5y agoSexual awareness, like holding a boy's hand, is considered a major scandal. SK celebrities are often expected to be highly sexualised in clothing, their songs, etc. whilst maintaining an entirely "pure" persona. i.e. Never considered kissing, etc. This "impure purity" is expected for both male & female celebs, though there are some differences and boys tend to get a little more leeway. The celeb also tends to take the blame for their creepy fans. It's their fault for 'encouraging' stalkers, etc. It's an impossible culture that chews people up and spits them out.
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- blondin 5y agothis is depressing.
- swayvil 5y agoI relate. It might also be Darwinian.
- makeitdouble 5y agoOn the other side of the coin there's an army of young people dedicating their life to be instagramable.
- est 5y agoin other news, skilled performancer without a pretty face get more jobs.
- Norther 5y agoAre there any companies listed on public exchanges doing this kind of work? This will surely change advertising forever.
- schleck8 5y agoI don't think so. You still need a body model, so it kind of defeats the economic aspect.
- Shorel 5y agoThe face can be somehow detected as AI generated. At least I can still detect a difference. What surprised me was the hands. The hands are perfect. I can't see anything at all that makes me think they are not real. It is amazing.
- sanxiyn 5y agoEh, that's because hands are real. They are face swapping rendered face to real body. Source: easy to find if you can read Korean.
- grapist420 5y agooh. makes much more sense. I don’t see how this helps avoid scandals unless they’re using multiple interchangeable models plus the face? https://www.instagram.com/rozy.gram/ https://www.instagram.com/rozy.gram/ I can’t see the face swap at all tbh
- sanxiyn 5y agoThey are using multiple interchangeable models. They stated they already have four models.
- worrycue 5y agoReminds me of the Japanese guy that used FaceApp to pose as a pretty girl for social media. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56447357 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56447357
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- Shorel 5y agoAhhh, then it is disappointing. Anyone can do photoshop.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoThe teeth are still wrong, though. I'm not sure what's so hard about teeth, but (so far) weird teeth has always been a reliable tell for me.
- swayvil 5y agoI'm reminded of the artificial egg. So big, perfect and beautiful that, if you put one in a bird's nest, the bird will neglect real eggs in favor of the artificial one.
- bryan0 5y agoVirtual influencers have been around for a while. Couldn't tell from the article what the "AI generated" part adds to it though. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-29/lil-miquela-lol-s-seraphine-virtual-influencers-make-more-real-money-than-ever https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-29/lil-mique...
- sanxiyn 5y agoYes, Rozy is exactly like Lil Miquela and creators pretty much say so. I am not sure why this coverage is different.
- danmur 5y agoI wonder if Max Headroom counts :)
- DonHopkins 5y agoI know, I'll count those bars on the window. One. Two. Three. Sleep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epzmRZk6UU&ab_channel=ArtOfNoise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epzmRZk6UU&ab_channel=ArtOf...
- gfody 5y agoHatsune Miku from 2007
- biryani_chicken 5y agoHasn't Mickey Mouse been advertising things for decades? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHEuxMNlbbc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHEuxMNlbbc
- AnonC 5y ago> "These days, celebrities are sometimes withdrawn from dramas that they have been filming because of school violence scandals or bullying controversies. However, virtual humans have zero scandals to worry about." Wait till they make the virtual human “talk” (or put up messages and replies online) and you’ll have scandals very soon. Others have learned this the hard way before.
- 01100011 5y agoIf we don't already have it now, it's only a matter of time before we have a combination of deep-fake AIs with conversational AIs which can break a voice call mid-stream and begin influencing the conversation in a particular direction. Think of it like a man-in-the-middle attack. Our intelligence agencies would be absolutely stupid not to work on this. Any voice communication channel you can intercept, you can influence, and you can use the trust established with vocal familiarity to enable you assume the influence level of one or both of the speakers. The key would be training the AI to know when to alter the conversation and when to let it pass through.
- justinclift 5y agoNot only deep fakes. What happens if/when the generated/virtual human turns out to look identical to a real (living) human being. There are many kind of possibilities for things getting weird at that junction. eg if the real person is a porn star, political figure, <etc>
- parsecs 5y agoWhy do things like this generate so many responses along the lines of "this is depressing," "technology is terrifying," "humanity is doomed" and etc? We've always loved entertainment ever since the dawn of our species. "Generated people" just seem like another form of entertainment medium, enabled by advancements in technology, to me. Sure, I see the points about how we're more and more isolated and anti social and stuff.. but is that really a problem? Our evolutionary programming has the primary objective of genetic propagation, but it's ultimately up to us to decide our purpose in life. Someone said that real "AI-takeover" scenarios would involve such enthralling fantasies and entertainment that humans cannot even begin to imagine, and humans won't even put up a fight against AIs. As for me, I'm not alarmed; I absolutely look forward for that scenario to happen.
- DoctorNick 5y agoSurely, you can't be this credulous
- parsecs 5y agoMaybe I am this credulous
- SpicyLemonZest 5y agoThere are other serious concerns I do have about AI, but on this topic I think it's a reasonable argument. What you have to remember is that the average person sits in front of a TV for 3-4 hours a day, watching characters who aren't real act out stories that never happened. Some people enjoy the shows where real people stand in front of a camera, while others (guilty!) prefer the ones where cartoonists draw fake people. In both genres, we've long since reached the saturation point where you could watch every second of your free time, but most people don't do that because they don't want to. The same dynamics generalize to Instagram, especially with filters allowing "real people" to look perfect in a way no actual person can - I don't know of reliable statistics on exactly how much people use Instagram, but I'm pretty confident it's not bounded by the number of pictures they could find if they wanted. Does adding in an intermediate category of "cartoon but looks like a real person" fundamentally change these dynamics? I'm not 100% sure, but I lean towards no.
- jacob_rezi 5y agoWe are a global startup in Seoul, the company next to our office creates this type of character. I am not sure what they use their models for though. Very talented work they create.
- rllearneratwork 5y agowe need one to run for President in USA in 2024
- noisy_boy 5y agoI think in addition to personal finance, they should teach two more topics: 1. How to win friends and influence people 2. How to not be influenced easily
- system2 5y agoThey can't mouth and teeth right...
- tehjoker 5y agoAdvertisements are already photo-shopped and completely fake. Knowing that the models are AI generated doesn't change much about that. It could actually have a beneficial effect. If young people (especially girls) know that the images they see on-screen are 100% computer generated, maybe it will reduce their effectiveness at convincing them that the ad is an object worthy of emulation. I'm sure the advertisers will scientifically test for this effect and use whatever strategy keeps them buying though...
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> If young people (especially girls) know that the images they see on-screen are 100% computer generated, maybe it will reduce their effectiveness at convincing them that the ad is an object worthy of emulation. You think so? Nobody ever wanted to be like Sailor Moon?
- frozenport 5y agoDid Sailor Moon push facial creams? Wasn't the protagonist supposed to be somewhat of a slob?
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoNot creams, exactly. But Sailor Moon has always been heavily merchandised. And the Japanese name is "pretty guardian sailor moon" and she says "moon crystal power make-up" and her transformation tool has the shape of a cosmetic kit and ok I'll stop now. To be clear, this is just the most superficial stuff. That television series was definitely pushing a certain specific and not at all enlightened standard of female behavior and beauty. Not that I think it should be cancelled on Twitter or anything, but I think it's helpful to criticize the media we consume.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoPlenty of western cartoons made to push toys though, e.g. Masters of the Universe.
- mastazi 5y agoInteresting bit at the end: > As CEO Baek said, the reason for the popularity of virtual humans is that there is no fear that advertisements will be suspended due to unsavory privacy scandals after the AI model is selected as the advertising model. In addition, the location and scene can be created through computer graphics, so the virtual model is not limited in time and space, and unlike real people. The other advantage is that period in which the model can be active is very long or eternal because the virtual human doesn't get sick or grow old.
- sorokod 5y agoOffensive (by whatever definition of offensive in the context) images can be generated and poison the perception of the virtual persona.
- viktorcode 5y agoInteresting to read about virtual human on a website with the design that is the next level of evil. Another one which doesn't account that the content can be zoomed in on a desktop too, not just on mobile platforms.
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- handmodel 5y agoAnyone with more knowledge know how much of this is BS? She has 60k followers on Instagram which (even if all real) isn't that much. Certainly not anywhere big enough to make 800k a year that the creator claims he plans on making. They say they have 100 sponsorships but this seems like a marketing statement...influencers all the time talk about how popular they are and I don't see why we should trust the creator of AI influencer more. I don't see any major brands on her Instagram though I'm not South Korean so maybe I'm missing something - but more likely explanation seems to be that he has partnered with a few companies for a pittance and is overhyping his creation to get more money in.
- sanxiyn 5y agoSouth Korean here. Shinhan Life ran a TV commercial of Rozy. It's not BS.
- seoulmetro 5y agoIf you were South Korean, you'd realise how much the marketing sphere of Korea is influenced by passing fads and memes. There's never a single thing that hasn't been picked up by at least one larger person to try run their luck at a new trend. TV commercial does not make it not BS. There are lots of things in Korea that are utter BS but get a lot of attention, and people are generally fearful of missing out.
- sanxiyn 5y agoWTF if you were South Korean? I was born in South Korea and lived here for 35 years. I am saying creators are probably not lying when they project $800k yearly revenue. Yes, you can earn $800k in South Korea entirely by fads, but that was not the question.
- seoulmetro 5y agoYes. You're the one bringing up the fact that you're South Korean for some reason. I'm rebutting your comment with more information that actually suits Korea. I know what you're saying, I'm not sure what being Korean has to do with that. And no, no one said you could not earn money in Korea through fads. What does that have to do with what I wrote? I'm saying they are most definitely capable of lying, especially in cases where lying grants you a huge boost to future results. Are you replying to the right comment here?
- grapist420 5y agoarticle is annoyingly uninformative about what “AI generated girl” actually means or represents here
- schleck8 5y agojust like 90 % of the kpop community
- ekianjo 5y agoHatsune Miku was there before.
- quantified 5y agoMax Headroom
- wiz21c 5y agoNow I can more or less predict your age :-)
- vvoyer 5y agoInsta: https://www.instagram.com/rozy.gram/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/rozy.gram/?hl=en
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- arvinsim 5y ago> However, virtual humans have zero scandals to worry about. Oh my sweet summer child, if only you know. EDIT: A comment in here explains it more in detail.
- avnigo 5y agoThis [0] is what came to mind when you mentioned that, but I feel like you're talking about something else? [0]: https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
- arvinsim 5y agoI was talking about something else but your reference does show another way current AI can be corrupted.
- aaron695 5y agoRozy is part human. This backup singer did her dancing - https://www.instagram.com/p/CRgQy3aJATr/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CRgQy3aJATr/ She's a mish mash of girl/girls and perhaps AI? Not sure where the AI is? But I guess any idiot can see she's not an AI influencer. That's not possible, it's 2021 not fucking 2031. Next thing people will be believing AI can help copilot us programming. I guess some people do believe any old marketing. Rozy was originally forever 21. I wonder if she needed to 22 for the life insurance company.
- d--b 5y agoI love to see the cultural differences between korea/japan and the West on the matter of artificial stuff. Whereas in the West people would try to hide fakeness as much as possible, people in the far East have a much more candid view of it. In the West we do understand and like artificiality, but we really want to contain it to the realm of fiction. When some artificiality spills out in the “real” world we raise red flags: “tssk, this temple is not authentic, it burned down 80 years ago and they rebuilt it from scratch” In the East, there is a deep philosophical difference that I would like to understand better - if anyone can point to any reference on that matter? It’s like people have understood that fiction and artificiality are part of our lives, cause people embellish things all the time, and we humans are happy when we believe in things. So instead of being suspicious, they let themselves invaded by artificiality, not unlike the way Western people create emotional connection with novel characters, but in real world situations. And I mean why not? In the West, we get cartoon character-based advertising, we get actor-based advertising. How is AI-based influencer (that doesn’t hide the fact that it’s artificial) is any different? If Tony the Kellogg’s tiger had an instagram account, we’d find it totally normal. Here is the same, except that we just jumped over the uncanny valley. There is a lot to talk about on the subject and doesn’t fit in a hn comment :-)
- sanxiyn 5y ago> this temple is not authentic, it burned down 80 years ago and they rebuilt it from scratch As a South Korean, I would like to understand the viewpoint of the "West" better. What is not authentic about rebuilt temple? No one is trying to mislead, restoration does not try to hide the fact it was restored. Buildings require maintenance, so even buildings that is continuing to stand is not the same building, in the style of ship of Theseus. Difference from "rebuilt from scratch" is not clear cut. Maybe wooden buildings make this clearer than stone buildings?
- pkulak 5y agoOh, I'm sure you guys will have this one figured out soon. :D https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
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- kolbusa 5y agoNow lets wait for her to get married
- ipsum2 5y agoAI seems to be used as a buzzword here, I think this is just a (well-done) 3d model, seeing that they're created by an art studio: http://locusanimation.com/ http://locusanimation.com/
- antegamisou 5y agoYeah the title is downright wrong, if not misleading. It had me thinking that thispersondoesntexist got even better.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoGotta love the infinite well of bullshit that advertising is. So here we have CGI faking a person, and then being passed off as "AI" in turn.
- janekm 5y agoI think it's pretty apparent that they are using a "body model" for the body as well which is kind of interesting in itself... It used to be that we'd use CG characters to replace the body of actors, now it's the other way around...
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- nothis 5y agoWait, they're just photoshoping her face? That's a whole less impressive than I thought.
- janekm 5y agoI can't prove it but there's evidence of that in the photos (difference in light transport in the facial skin vs body skin, some inconsistencies in shadows, masking issues around the hair , nail polish, the clothing is a little "too real").
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- richardfey 5y agoHow long before someone gets surgery to look like her?
- sanxiyn 5y agoI bet this already happened.
- MikeGale 5y agoHow do we even know, from that article, that this is a computer generated being?
- ctoth 5y ago> The males of this species have the habit to aggregate on and attempting to copulate with discarded brown "stubbies" (a type of beer bottles). The males are apparently attracted by the refraction of light produced by the glass bumps of the bottles, resembling giant females with a very similar colour and surface. > Consequently to this behaviour the species is actually threatened. Prof. Darryl Gwynne, from the Toronto University, and David Rentz have achieved the Ig Nobel Prize for their studies on Julodimorpha species behaviour. > This behavior is often given as an example of a Supernormal stimulus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julodimorpha_bakewelli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julodimorpha_bakewelli
- devfromanatolia 5y agothey took urrr juurbbs
- nathias 5y agoall influencers are AI generated
- albertTJames 5y agoThese are not AI generated images. I wouldn't be surprised the "AI" plays a non-essential role in ths project and the rest is just plain 3D modelling.
- iambozdar 5y agoShe is generating money for someone. This is what should be debated instead of east or west.
- hyperno 5y agoRelated: A similar mexican project. A girl on Instagram called mar.ia [0]: https://www.instagram.com/soymar.ia/ https://www.instagram.com/soymar.ia/
- wiz21c 5y agoSide questions: what's the state of the art in modelling as-real-as-possible human bodies, clothes ? I've seen tons of renderings but I don't know how much, for example, one can apply a virtual body on a motion capture. That is, how easy is the process of creation ?
- ryandrake 5y agoWilliam Gibson predicted something like this 25 years ago in Idoru[1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru
- theelous3 5y agoYeah, Rei Toi came to mind straight away. Here's a more direct link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rei_Toei https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rei_Toei
- larodi 5y agosurprising lack of mention of anything-NFT in this article. perhaps (they) have not decided to sell her yet, or maybe NFT is just irrelevant (here). even though quite seems to fit in this world-goes-digital narrative...?
- DethNinja 5y agoIs this really AI generated though or do they use traditional 3D modelling? Here is a western version of this with traditional 3D modelling for comparison: https://80.lv/articles/stunning-photoreal-renders-in-blender-by-blitter/ https://80.lv/articles/stunning-photoreal-renders-in-blender...
- severine 5y agoI should know better than expecting information from these articles but... what's so "AI" about this? What differentiates Rozy from Lara Croft, Popeye or Bart Simpson?
- gls2ro 5y agoWhat concerns me most is that this adds more to the disconnection between the perfect, happy, successful and now forever young image from socila media and real life. And this makes us miserable, trying to achieve goals that is not possible, but seems just around the corner, seen everyday at every scroll.
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- teekert 5y agoI see a Black Mirror episode where millions of AI generated girls influence an army of 14 year old real girls to take over the world and transfer power to the AI makers afterwards. It will be like "the Wave" [0] but fully a-b test optimized and on a world scale. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(1981_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(1981_film)
- touringa 5y agoThought this was going to be about Dr Alan D. Thompson's Leta AI! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqJbCeNOfEK88QyAkBe-U0zxCgbHrGa4V https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqJbCeNOfEK88QyAkBe-U... https://lifearchitect.ai/leta https://lifearchitect.ai/leta
- ghego1 5y agoThe movie SimOne just got real
- drclau 5y agoEleven days ago I said this in another HN thread: “At some point in the future, AI will make better humans than naturally occurring humans.” [0] I did not realize how close that future I was thinking of was. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28401487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28401487
- dr_dshiv 5y agoHas anyone considered the incredible danger of "free" AI that can own property and bank accounts?
- oofoe 5y agoYou mean like the common or garden variety corporation? These "slow AIs", like the Dutch East India Corporation or Coca-Cola or Exxon have already proved their danger -- wars, resource depletion, pollution and other negative externalities.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoYess... Exactly, corporate by laws are totally a form of AI. But, corps are still owned by people. A totally free AI that aims to maximize the money in it's account seems terrifying.
- imtringued 5y ago> A totally free AI that aims to maximize the money in it's account seems terrifying. You mean the wealthy?
- cutler 5y agoThe ultimate capitalist's dream.
- slightlyCyborg 5y ago> As CEO Baek said, the reason for the popularity of virtual humans is that there is no fear that advertisements will be suspended due to unsavory privacy scandals after the AI model is selected as the advertising model. Niave little humans, always being caught off guard
- estomagordo 5y agoThe true AIs here are the simpletons who are looking to get influenced by this.
- jacquesm 5y agoI just noticed a very popular DIY channel on Youtube that has 375K subscribers that all lap it up. Except for one little problem: it's as fake as can be, but you have to look at it for quite a while to begin to spot the problems. The giveaway for me was when the person that 'runs' the channel drilled a hole with an electric drill and quite obviously didn't know how to hold it. Then I started looking more closely and bit by bit the whole thing fell apart. They must have a huge cast of craftspeople that know how to work the various materials, they set up each shot for a very brief suggestion of the main character doing the work and (and to show off an entirely new wardrobe compared to the previous shot). It's a real pity because I actually wanted it to be real. But then there is Jeri Ellsworth, unpolished and as real as can be. But with a small fraction of the followers of the fake channel. So fake works, people want to believe that there is this one single young incredibly capable person that turns out one wonderful piece of art after another. So I'm entirely not surprised that they'd go the whole distance and get rid of the person completely and make the whole thing artificial. After all, if the person is just another prop that too might as well be a fake, there is very little difference.
- ourmandave 5y agoNow I'm curious, what's the fake channel?
- jacquesm 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC22y0-2FLYGXImsFsBQq2-g https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC22y0-2FLYGXImsFsBQq2-g Edit: what really pisses me off about this is that I got suckered in for long enough to make me want that time back.
- theelous3 5y agoIf you want the real version of incredibly talented young self taught artisan, check out ca lem. Vietnamese machinist youtuber: https://youtu.be/hpenv1ZqGx4 https://youtu.be/hpenv1ZqGx4
- user_named 5y agoThere are probably hundreds of thousands of Instagram accounts without an identifiable person running them, with over 100k followers. This is no different, and the article is just attaching AI to something commonly occurring to create a story. People follow an account like this for the same reasons they follow a meme page, a curated architecture account, or any brand; because it's entertainment.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoIn my various trips to Tokyo (I went regularly, for over 20 years), I was always impressed by their artificial stuff. There's a whole industry, making artificial food, for restaurant display. The cheap stuff looks like what it is: plastic dross. The good stuff, however, is virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. On my last couple of trips, I got a hankering for candy, and brought these artificial strawberries. They were made of something like white chocolate, and looked exactly like those "trail mix" dried strawberries. But they tasted like the Platonic ideal of fresh strawberries. Might not be the real thing, but they were great. Maybe I'll die early, from having eaten them, but they were awesome. I think it's only a matter of time, before we have completely artificial actors and actresses. Models will probably come first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film)
- ta988 5y agoGreat, the next step is to automate the sponsors.
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- whalesalad 5y agoReminds me of the Genki Rockets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genki_Rockets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genki_Rockets
- KuhlMensch 5y agoIn this case I assume "AI" referring to the fact it is an "artificial" influencer, and no AI was used in its creation. Feels like a trend I could see continuing: https://wwd.com/eye/people/shudu-digital-fashion-model-avatar-1202683320/ https://wwd.com/eye/people/shudu-digital-fashion-model-avata...
- motohagiography 5y agoWhen you look at these avatars as a channel for ideas, then you look at what charisma can achieve via rock stars, revolutionaries, and great leaders, this is a significant development. Consider how well an avatar could perform from a charisma perspective vs. the canned press statements by an awkward expert or a bland politician reading a teleprompter. Forget deepfakes, I don't think average people will be able to compete for attention with a team of top writers running persuasive avatars. A well aimed joke by a comedian can change beliefs, and I could see how to use these avatars for some powerful ends. How does one go about acquiring a kit for one of these?
- rblion 5y agoWe will look back on the culture Instagram created one day with disgust if you aren't already there today. It's distorted reality for a whole generation and we still don't what the long-term consequences of that will be.