Edit: when I say "nefarious" I mean you can use that tech to impersonate someone (eg. political reason) but for my case it's more the creeper type cloning someone for personal use eg. Replika
Tangent, the holo vtubers industry is interesting since they build up these characters with some unique persona/theme and then people follow that specific model, they could make themselves into an AI easily since it's a rigged 3D asset but of course it would be boring compared to the real thing
The most popular vtuber on Twitch is an AI tho
I'm not sure if that's truly AI since the Turtle drives her
Edit: if the source was open I'd believe it
It has always been a LLM. There is no human typing at insane speed to the TTS.
edit: but yeah the fact that so many people interact with her shows generated content can keep people occupied