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Virtual influencers are burning up South Koreans’ Instagram feeds (www.economist.com)
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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.

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[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

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.