TikTok—one of the biggest repositories of AI slime—is exploring the possibility of releasing virtual influencers to compete for brand deals against its human influencers. Instead of a brand paying a human influencer five or six figures to flog its clothes or cars (a sum TikTok doesn’t get a cut of) the platform wants to offer brands the option of... See more

The fakeness Sam’s talking about here started on TikTok years ago but now feels inescapable because LLMs We’re far underestimating the sociocultural impact AI will have beyond the ‘dead internet’ … it’s gonna get even stranger https://t.co/N3gRCrSJJS