<div dir="ltr">See "vtubers" for a much lower-budget, but potentially larger impact, version of this. (Granted, there are real humans behind vtubers...for now, but those parts could be digitized.)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 9:45 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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</span><br></div></div>
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