She’s got more than 130,000 followers on Instagram, where she posts photos of her globetrotting adventures. Her makeup is always impeccable, her clothes look straight off the runway. She sings, dances and models – and none of it is real. Rozy is a South Korean “virtual influencer,” a digitally rendered human so realistic she is often mistaken for flesh and blood.

"Apart from being cheaper, virtual celebrities have other advantages over human ones. “They don’t complain” and firms “don’t have to worry about them ruining their reputation”, says Kim Sang-kyun from Kangwon National University in Gangwon province". *

"virtual influencers never age, tire or invite controversy." **

Freightdog wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 1:01 pm I’m not sure which is more reassuring- either bombing each other into oblivion, or engineering our own slow fizzling out.

One thing, though- a future, dominant, sentient, technological replacement for us are probably going to be better informed about why we aren’t here anymore, and how. Unlike our own pondering of the pyramids, and other gaps in our self-knowledge.

siliconlife wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 10:53 am "Never invite controversy"? Controversial by nature. Also boring without scandal. All this crap will pass, imo.