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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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[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Idoru (William Gibson, 1996). Jpst another case of tech bros building the Torment Nexus.