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Any attempt to create an AI “influencer” has been met with massive backlash. At best you’re going to get some generically anonymous bot pretending to be human,

Any attempt to create an AI “influencer” has been met with massive backlash. At best you’re going to get some generically anonymous bot pretending to be human, that has limited reach because they don’t actually exist in the real world. Much of the media influence game involves podcasts, events, interviews, and a host of other things that can’t be faked. I just don’t really see what scenario the doomsayers are imagining here. An entire media sphere of AIs that somehow shift public opinion without existing or interacting with the real media world? The practicalities don’t make sense.

AstroBen 1y ago
> Much of the media influence game involves podcasts, events, interviews, and a host of other things that can’t be faked. Have you not been following how fast video gen is improving? We're not far off convincing fake video interviews The backlash only happens when people can tell it's AI
- keiferski 1y ago
  Again, I don’t really see what scenario here is actually some kind of doomsday. So someone makes a fake video of X famous person saying an absurd thing on Joe Rogan’s podcast. It’s not on the official Rogan account, but just on some low quality AI slop channel. Maybe it fools a handful of people…but who cares? People are already pretty trained to be skeptical of video. I think we’ll mostly just see a focus on identity verification. If the content isn’t verified as being by the real person, it’ll just be treated as mindless entertainment.