[ExI] the future gets uglier

[John Grigg]

What you describe sounds like this 2002 film...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuAjeuKXX7c

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 1:46 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Companies are apparently getting tired of paying social media
> “influencers” big bucks to tout their products. Enter artificial
> intelligence. Japanese startup Aww Inc. has introduced Imma, whose bright
> pink hair and “goofy dance moves” brought her 300,000 followers on
> Instagram — and landed the company seven figures in seed funding to develop
> more bots, including Imma’s “brother,” Plustic Boy. The company says Imma
> was actually started as an art project, but companies wanted to sponsor
> her. Virtual influencers “have real business potential,” says Christopher
> Travers, who runs a website reporting on the trend. “They are cheaper to
> work with than humans in the long term, are 100% controllable, can appear
> in many places at once, and, most importantly, they never age or die.”
>  bill w
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