I’m not completely against AI but this shit makes me wish we went back to monke.

She is perhaps best-known for an advert for an insurance company in which she danced across the rooftops of Seoul.

We really are living in a Cyberpunk dystopia

Apart from being cheaper, virtual celebrities have other advantages over human ones. “They don’t complain” and firms “don’t have to worry about them ruining their reputation”, says Kim Sang-kyun from Kangwon National University in Gangwon province.

these virtual influences vtubers etc are the logical conclusion of what that role is anyway. exceedingly fake and plastic, a spectacle for people to gawk at. who cares if it’s literally virtual from front to back, ‘real’ influences or streamers are performing a role anyway, they can’t be their true selves, nothing about any of what they do is real or meaningful

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Yea, human influencers were already extremely fake af.

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God, South Korea sucks sooooo bad. My girlfriend is obsessed with SK TV shows and they are all so overwhelmingly fake and false. This bullshit seems par for the course.

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kim pls

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I don’t understand why anyone would follow this sort of account. The account clearly says that it’s a virtual influencer so they are not using underhanded tricks here.

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i hope there’ll be blowback from flooding the world with AI influencers. i hope people just tune them all out en-masse.

but… what if this shit keeps working?

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This is the natural evolution of

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