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Spanish agency created AI influencer and she's raking in up to $11,000 a month
- kfox2010 3y agoDoes this violate any of the social media terms? I wonder if they will just ban this at some point.
- stagas 3y agoThey're getting a piece of the pie, no? I wouldn't be surprised if they were also doing it.
- deepsquirrelnet 3y agoWhy would they if it increases engagement? They encourage other technologies, such as “filters” that create images loosely based on your appearance. Giving accounts to people that don’t exist is not much of a distinction from how people currently use it.
- spider2Ybanana 3y agoMeta’s already added their own versions with celebs to instagram. The pictures of the people are not AI-generated but all the interactions are with a chat bot. See https://inspiramarketing.com/metas-ai-powered-celebrities-redefining-digital-interactions/ https://inspiramarketing.com/metas-ai-powered-celebrities-re...
- HPsquared 3y agoIt's a good target for automation given how "samey" a lot of the content is.
- jruohonen 3y agoSince pretty much all of this so-called "content" is indeed pure BS and garbage, I for one welcome disrupting this influencer industry to the pieces.
- robsalasco 3y agono-paywall link https://archive.is/aluJT https://archive.is/aluJT
- kilroy123 3y agoI imagine quite a few OnlyFan's accounts are just AI.
- apwell23 3y agounlikely. Unless someone is specifically seeking AI onlyfans, I don't see how a normal person cannot instantly tell that its an AI.
- yieldcrv 3y agoa lot of people don’t care many would far rather be entertained by an AI than pay an actual human (woman) for company many people view the latter as failure, while viewing the former as just entertainment no different than buying hentai manga or adults only computer game same with placating their partners. “Oh this onlyfans is just AI there is no woman I’m interacting with” and there is an exception to Section 230 immunity where site operators can be liable for user generated content if its possible a human was sex trafficked, obvious AI that is erotic doesnt have this problem as there is no human, leading to a more favorable business environment I can see it being impossible to compete with very quickly, especially if the AI is always saying the right things and producing content quicker long GPU manufacturers and gpu cloud providers
- whaleofatw2022 3y agoProject Melody was a thing, although that was perhaps closer to a controlled vocaloid than a true AI.
- numpad0 3y agoIt seems AI porn is its own niche at most. It's not replacing anything, mostly just feeding negative training data for human GAN, for both generation and discrimination.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoI read that as OF requires a credential verification, people are failing to try that.
- fkarg 3y ago> influencer agency The Clueless was only inspired to design her because they found real-life models and influencers too unreliable and difficult to work with. hilarious
- mc32 3y agoNo strikes. No opinions (refusal to appear with other content). No diva behavior. Just a cog doing what’s expected. It may be some years off but eventually video content will move toward synthetic actors and actresses. Some real actors will remain but will be a minority. People still go to see live plays.
- optimalsolver 3y ago>People still go to see live plays That’s where holograms come in.
- nprateem 3y agoTechnology seems to turn everything into cottage industries eventually.
- morkalork 3y agoProblem is that it hollows out the middle and all that's left is either expensive niche stuff or mass produced synthetic crap. Wood furniture is a good example today.
- BoiledCabbage 3y agoIt's doing the same thing with employment and society in general. Hollowing out middle class jobs and the middle class itself. And as we see, it won't stop there. Doctors, Lawyers, Programmers are all on the chopping block as well.
- Nasrudith 3y agoThat is historically quite ironic given how cottage industry was the early industry before factories disrupted them. Of course you could call work from home coding cottage industry too.
- kyriakos 3y agoHow are consistent facial characteristics achieved? Wouldn't every image have slight variations that break the illusion?
- doix 3y agoPeople also look slightly different based on lighting and makeup. I'm guessing a LoRA trained on someone's face would be enough to get it consistent. Considering that people can make fakes with celebrity faces fairly consistently, I suspect the same technology can be used here. There's probably someone sitting and picking out output as well, to get the best ones that keep with the desired image.
- smusamashah 3y agoOne of the tricks is to mix and match genders of known celebrities. E.g. A portrait a model that looks like Female Robert Downey Junior and Male Kim Kardashian. Generation will be kind of consistent but still unrecognisable.
- gumballindie 3y agoBack in the day such scammers were frowned upon.
- vasvae3 3y agoBack in the day when the human models were full of silicone and the photos were full of photoshop?
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- wslh 3y agoIt would be great to know details about the resources spent and team involved less the AI. Most probably the AI is not the only "secret sauce" here. Saying it another way: it will not work for most people and/or companies. D̵o̵n̵'̵t̵ try this at home.
- dafaqueue 3y agoHow do you keep the AI so consistent with the face and the hair? In my experience it's always generating different things.
- injeolmi_love 3y agoMidjourney blend tends to be stable.
- csomar 3y agoMy guess is that they have a 3D model and are using AI to make it look realistic.
- dvfjsdhgfv 3y agoMy guess is that they have a real model and AI is everything else.
- jruohonen 3y agoThere was a similar one done by a Finnish advertising agency: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12336293/Stunning-blonde-19-100-000-social-media-followers-taking-internet-storm-scantily-clad-portraits-tell-whats-wrong-photos.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12336293/Stu...
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoI wonder if everyone left at the agency will be happy when AI replaces them too.
- colesantiago 3y agoAgeless, no complaining, no whining, no crying, just working overtime 24/7. I wonder if this will create a boom and replace influencers except for those who do live shows which this wouldn't work for until robots arrive trying to do this. The dystopia is moving fast and cheapening every industry.
- bogota 3y agoI don’t think too many will mourn the loss of influencers.
- ghostDancer 3y agoOnly the influencers that won't get any more money.
- subw00f 3y agoAs soon as they're able to produce 100% realistic videos, it's over.
- amelius 3y agoOnly stills, no video?
- jacknews 3y agoAre people actually paying for this as AI, or is it basically fraud at this point, ie people are paying for the girl, assuming she's real.
- belter 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38397404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38397404
- rib3ye 3y agoThe “AI” is just the visual stills. A human still has to craft the strategy, write the content, feed the model new fashion and generally be “influential”. At the moment, it seems like a net loss.
- spacecadet 3y agoAlso, Im all for "AI", but in my logic this is fraud.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoThis is just what the post truth world looks like. All audio, video, and photography will be suspect and assumed to be AI in the next decade. I wonder if humanity will regret the change in the coming decades.
- thfuran 3y agoI already do.
- whynotmaybe 3y agoWhere's then frontier between marketing and fraud when using simple tools like Photoshop? Those skin product ad where the image of the skin is so flawless should be classified as fraud. But soon it won't be photoshopped because the flawless skin would have been generated by some AI just like some ads that use 3d avatars.
- spacecadet 3y agoMy partner is a professional photographer with large brand beauty clients, so I know all to well the extent of change from the raw image to the final release... To me, its a fine line, and just because some monkey wants to toy with photoshop as a career doesn't mean they can ignore all ethics. More so after all we have learned about the FRAUD of self worth and body image being pushed on young people, particularly young women.
- CrzyLngPwd 3y agoThe comments on the images are hilarious. So many (lonely?) men suckered in. Stuff like this just doesn't scale well for IG (and similar services). At some point, it will be trivially easy for everyone to make hundreds of such fake profiles and then IG will be inundated with it, drowning out the real-world content.
- 93po 3y agoOh noooooo. Not the real content on IG! lol :)
- CrzyLngPwd 3y agoThere is plenty: https://www.instagram.com/purpleportofficial/ https://www.instagram.com/purpleportofficial/
- blharr 3y agoThough IG has a strong recommendation algorithm. If a user stops interacting with AI generated posts, it will stop recommending them. So you could be in a recommendation algorithm world with 0 AI generated content if you were able to discriminate well enough against AI generated posts.
- cubefox 3y agoWomen seem to be less susceptible to such fakes.
- petre 3y agoYou think? Let's put a Chanel purse and Jimmy Choo shoes on an AI and see if we can sell some luxury jewelry.
- willcipriano 3y agoNot at all. https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/fake-romeo-charmed-more-than-100-women-with-romance-scammed-them-going-to-prison/ https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/fake-romeo-charmed-more-t... Women are probably an easier target if anything. Just pretend to be rich, handsome and famous: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12409699/Woman-thought-relationship-Stranger-Things-star-Dacre-Montgomery-sent-scammer-10-000-left-husband.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12409699/Woman-th...
- cubefox 3y agoYeah, but they don't seem to be interested in having "AI boyfriends".
- willcipriano 3y agoNot if they know they are AI.
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoMore discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38397404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38397404
- consumer451 3y agoWhile this story is great advertising for the agency, these images are not subject to copyright, are they? [0] It would be a shame if a competing agency used them in a disparaging way, with no compensation due to the anti-human advertising agency. [0] https://www.reuters.com/legal/ai-generated-art-cannot-receive-copyrights-us-court-says-2023-08-21/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/ai-generated-art-cannot-receiv...