Link to an article about what it is: https://www.scrile.com/blog/what-is-an-ai-influencer
AI influencers are reshaping social media with digital faces that look real, act consistent, and attract millions of followers. This article explains what AI influencers are, how they’re created, why brands invest in them, and how you can build your own digital persona with Scrile AI.
An excerpt from that article.
I think it’s close to equal parts jealousy and legitimate distaste for rewarding popularity for popularity sake. So much of the toxic behavior of the popular cliche in high school makes it into the environment that it dilutes the legitimate utilization of the platform for making actually good content.
That, and the possibly justifiable hated for what some people are now considering, by extension, ‘good content’ when it all just ends up being reaction videos and meta content about content about content to the point where it’s just a bunch of rich assholes acting like rich assholes and that’s literally the content.
Honestly the worse trend I’ve seen are the channels that are effectively ‘bum fights’ with marginally less crude concepts. Let’s see how humiliated we can make my friends act for a tiny bit of money compared to how much I’m making is not, and has never been, a nice thing to do, and the platform has turned it into a lucrative job.
In that case one should then be more specific about what it is exactly that they dislike rather than just treating the whole “profession” of content creation as if there weren’t levels to it. Most of even objectively bad content is still harmless. Getting annoyed by it is bordering on self-harm as nobody is forcing anyone to consume that content. That’s kind of like someone getting angry at my Lemmy post for not being entertaining to them.
I too dislike inauthenticity, vanity, consumerism, and low-effort content made primarily to farm engagement but for the most part I just don’t pay any attention to it. I’m not against people being into stuff that I’m not for as long as it’s not harming anyone else. And yes, in some extreme cases content creation can be that as well.
Fair points, though i disagree on the majority of objectively bad content being harmless. Anything on the Internet that leads people to feeling marginalized or ashamed or less than someone else is harmful. Even weight loss and beauty product ads are harmful in measurable ways. Having popularity and young kids looking up to you and using that admiration to to put people down and normalizing it is the worst kind of character and just because it’s freedom of speech and some content creators don’t do it still results in something equating to a cesspool where the less thoughtful creators can thrive.