Brands are turning to hyper-realistic, AI-generated influencers for promotions.

AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans::Brands are turning to hyper-realistic, AI-generated influencers for promotions.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    2 years ago

    ‘Influencer’ as a job has only existed for what, 10 years? I don’t think society will collapse without them.

    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      54·
      2 years ago

      Influencers have a lot of overlap with artistic expression online, but this is not even all that it is about. This is not going to end simply with replacing Logan Paul and stopping at that. This is only one more step in a trend to replace a lot of creative, intellectual and service jobs. Which wouldn’t even be so bad if those people had a guarantee of a living and could do anything they want with their time… but this is not how it goes.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        72·
        2 years ago

        We couldn’t guarantee a living to all the people who had to go around picking up horse shit or lighting gas streetlamps either. Sure, a UBI would be nice, but technology advances. And I really do not believe it is a slippery slope from ending the career of Logan Paul to ending the career of a future Leonardo Da Vinci.