This is not a real human, it is an "AI Model". Meaning, a computer generated image/persona. And this "model" has over 120.000 follows on Instagram. The creators of "it" are making thousands of euros a month from advertising products via the "model". Basically generating new images with the same creature, but wearing different brands and so forth. (source)
Many people are aware of this, and yet still "follow" these "AI models". Probably humans are already used to live in a fake online world where even the humans are so filtered you can rarely depict any reality from their online lives.
This insanity can be easily understood and predicted if we understand this trade-based society where everyone is forced and incentivized to trade. Every piece of technology will be used for trade purposes. In the process a lot of waste and idiots are being created. Unfortunately.
It is all about trading this for that. This gives rise to consumption, to privacy invasive devices, to pollution and slavery, to what many call as capitalism. But the word "capitalism" gives too much credit to this primitive society where the main practice is that of trade. This is why we avoid to use that term in our TROM materials. It is deceptive and loaded with preconceptions.
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Legit_Spaghetti
in reply to TROM • • •Virtual idols have been a thing for almost 40 years, so this really is just a refinement of an old concept.
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fictional band or music group whose members are not depicted as corporeal musicians, but animated characters
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Rokosun
in reply to Legit_Spaghetti • • •I agree this is not a new concept, but the points made about the incentive to trade/monitize still holds true.
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Grant Denkinson
in reply to TROM • • •1996 novel by William Gibson
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Rokosun
in reply to TROM • • •> Aitana, an exuberant 25-year-old pink-haired woman from Barcelona, receives weekly private messages from celebrities asking her out. But this model is not real, she was created by her designers using AI.
The fact that people were asking her out means that they didn't disclose she was an AI generated image, so it's possible people started following her thinking she's a real person.
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