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The first Spanish AI model earning up to €10k per month

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Some point to ML models being the bad guy here, but I think its a good deconstruction of the whole Instagram influencer system, and modern marketing in general.

If all the top advertiser on , uh, "attractive selfie marketing platforms" are like this, maybe it will slowly shift user behavior? And there's more than one direction that could go, like more importance placed on the real (verified) person's actions, on institutions, or a general shift away from selfie marketing trust.

It will take a while to realize all they're watching is ads. Arguably influencers were ads too, but they were still humans acting and reacting. Now you get full ad experience end-to-end just in shape of a human, where real humans will be skipped.

> Arguably influencers were ads too

Precisely, and the human part is where the credibility and interest comes from.

AI is just leeching off that credibility now, but how long will it hold up?

It doesn't make it less of a lie, so if it saves some people from degrading themselves this badly, I guess it's a win.

>Arguably influencers were ads too, but they were still humans acting and reacting.

Do you think those influencers spend a single second reading the comments/private messages wankers send them? Unless they pay of course.

Thanking chat is as important part of maintaining the para-social relationship.

I think this is exactly what’s going to happen with “super smart unsafe AI”. If it’ll be abused and overused like this, people will just stop tuning in to those media sources where AI can easily dominate.

AI dominates instagram space? Why bother scrolling through it? It’s not interesting anymore. AI dominates online media? Why bother getting your information online?

For grown ups sure.

For children (including "children of all ages"), who are extra suggestible and impressionable, it will be and already is very concerning.

Yeah, that is a different and very serious concern.

To me this sounds more like "message" problem, rather than "medium" one

She's just a worse vtuber. I'll take a shark girl or awful white woman demon rapper over a generic Insta girl.

Also at first read I thought this was about an ML model, like GPT, hosted in Spain. One that wouldn't be available in the mid afternoon.

The cool thing with commoditized ai is, you don't have to pick.

Everyone can create the perfect mix of stimulai that guy is looking for at that instant in time.

I think there's something to knowning there's another human on the other side. If the content slop mill gives you everything you want all the time, it's somehow not as satisfying.

Yes, there is another human on the other side. But its not a girl (unless its some small content creator), it's most likely an office of 10 guys on the other side of the world being hired by her OnlyFans agency to reply/chat with the messages from the guys she gets.

I think the headline is misleading.

The way this article describes it..

They created a character that they are animating in Photoshop with their graphic design skills.

Reading between the lines, because photoshop tools incorporate AI, that makes this an “AI model”

Per month? that's chump change. CarynAI earns $70k per day!

How is that possible when they don't even disclose pricing on their main page? I'm not disbelieving you, I'm just struggling to understand.

I misheard the numbers originally. the reported number is $70,000 in the first week.

https://www.insider.com/influencer-creates-ai-virtual-girlfr...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/martineparis/2023/05/11/carynai...

Related: /counter to this

How Chinese influencers use AI digital clones of themselves to pump out content

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38157179

This is depressing.

This is just the beginning.

Full Alice mode at the bottom of the rabbit hole.

Why?

I think it's liberating.

You have a whole generation of depressed teenagers comparing themselves with genetic lottery winners, filters, and photoshop edits.

If everything online can be fake, than nothing online is real, which means nobody is 'beautiful' unless I see them in real life.

Feels like coming back full circle.

Was thinking the same thing. The old will become new again when everything is crowded out by AI

Yeah. Its like the glitch in the matrix a whole generation needs.

On the internet, nobody knows you're a "dog"

That's now how human nature works. Airbrushing models in magazines has been at epidemic levels for decades. Has that stopped people aspiring to look like models?

The starkest example of this is in the '99 film Fight Club,in a scene where the characters mock a Calvin Klein bus ad featuring an impossibly chiseled model. The man doing the mocking is none other than Brad Pitt whose abs are even better than the model's. Something tells me the characters envisioned by the author didn't look anything like him.

But it was always ostensibly a human behind the magazine ad. That was the fantasy.

AI flooding the space would be like little bits of skin visibly peeling off all the magazine models, exposing a robot underneath. If that's ubiquitous, it breaks the spell.

A break won't happen instantly, but the illusion no longer sustainable, outside the much smaller niche of people idolizing actual fantasy characters.

It’d be liberating if people were realizing or accepting how artificial an aspect of modern life is and has been, and rejected it for a more meaningful life rather than ever-increasing and empty consumerism. That’s most certainly not the vibe I’m getting from this article, it’s more an affirmation of people giving up and throwing their hats into the economy of bullshit. That’s the opposite of what I would find liberating.

lmao.

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