A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI
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And she's raking in up to $11,000 a month.

A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month::Founder Rubén Cruz said AI model Aitana was so convincing that a famous Latin actor asked her on a date.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    825·
    1 year ago
    1. This is about replacing humans with machines and making more profit. The framing around difficult to work with models is a distraction. The AI problem was always a capitalism problem. And here it is in full swing. Buckle up and brush up on your Ludditism people!
    2. As with AI and shopped imagery and porn, the unrealistic beauty standards problem is about to get ridiculous. There may be a moment coming not too far off where beauty is just not a human thing anymore. Which may be catastrophic (like people can’t have sex with each other anymore) or oddly liberating.
    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      322·
      1 year ago

      The unrealistic beauty standards are already ridiculous. Several years ago there was a vid showing how they changed a model’s photo session. Even the model wasn’t as perfect as her pictures, it was staggering.

      Being able to do it in video, well, that’s old hat now too. Just look at movies.

      It’ll just be faster with less manual effort with AI, with the same unrealistic results.

      What’s more concerning to me is how much easier it’ll be for media to lie, er, misrepresent situations visually.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      There may be a moment coming not too far off where beauty is just not a human thing anymore. Which may be catastrophic (like people can’t have sex with each other anymore) or oddly liberating.

      Here’s a somewhat related article that brings up how this is already happening without AI in the movie industry: Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny

      • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        Thanks! I’d read it already. Good one too. Though I wasn’t consciously referencing it in my mind, it no doubt planted the seed for my thought.

        The basis of my thought was my own reflection on whenever I’ve seen AI images that are intended to be beautiful and attractive. While they are often somewhat uncanny and even unnatural, in my experience they are definitely hitting the right “buttons”, like an artificial sweetener. But, IME, unlike artificial sweeteners, can effectively go for being more “sweet” than anything natural ever could.

        I don’t think I like it, but the capacity is definitely there and I can’t see why people won’t eventually get used to being aroused by some ridiculously proportioned and shiny but undeniably “sexy” AI character/imagery and find increasingly little of interest in our dull, flabby, hairy and flat selves.

        For the porn and modeling industries, maybe there’ll be a liberating effect of freeing women from the industry. Maybe sexual relationships will feel free to emphasise the physical and psychological intimacy rather than the visual attractiveness.

        In the end though, beauty standards will probably just become more problematic. Weird sci-fi shot is probably in store.

          • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            Thanks!

            In there is mentioned the idea that music might be a supernormal stimulus (of attractive speaking patterns and voices) … which is fantastic to me. Never thought of it that way, even though it’s kinda obvious in hindsight given that it’s widely accepted that we just like the sound of harmonious sounds. Supernormal stimulus is an interesting and compelling framing of it though!

      • randon31415@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        1 year ago

        Other modeling companies could use the same AI model, and no one could sue because you can’t copyright it!

        • lunarul@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Where would they get the same data? They could try to create a similar looking model, but it wouldn’t be the same one.

        • Merlin@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Why other modelling company? The customer of the modelling company can just do it themselves and completely make modelling companies irrelevant.

    • BorgDrone@lemmy.oneEnglish
      74·
      1 year ago

      This is about replacing humans with machines

      You do realize this is a good thing, right?

      It’s a sign of how much capitalism is ingrained into peoples minds that people see machines replacing humans as a bad thing. The point of life is not working. As humans we need certain tasks done to be able to live a comfortable life, food needs to be produced, houses built, etc. But doing these tasks is just a means to an end, they aren’t the goal. Jobs aren’t a good thing, they are a necessary evil. As humans we should strive to eliminate all jobs.

      • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        101·
        1 year ago

        And you do realise that those that own the places where people currently make a living will never give up their wealth? Unless the government makes the companies pay taxes at the highest bracket (I’m guessing that an AI will be the most experienced employee from day 0) for each instance and each position that the ai is taking over, businesses will fire everyone not essential (read: the guy that plugs in the server).

        • BorgDrone@lemmy.oneEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          And you do realise that those that own the places where people currently make a living will never give up their wealth?

          You do realize there’s more of us than there is of them? And guillotines aren’t that hard to make.