S6, E258 - The Synthetic Star: The AI Influencer Earning More Than You
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She has millions of followers, lands six-figure brand deals, and lives a life of curated perfection. The only catch? She isn't real. She was entirely created by artificial intelligence.
Welcome to the unsettling world of synthetic influencers.
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The Self, Remixed: How AI Personas Are Reshaping Our Sense of Identity
What happens to identity when the people we follow aren’t people at all? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore how AI-generated influencers—synthetic personas like Mia Zelu and Lil Miquela—are blurring the line between personhood and performance. These digit…
The Puppet Becomes Autonomous (Trevor McFedries)
Trevor McFedries built the world's first AI agent by hand — Lil Miquela, a CGI Instagram character with 2.5M followers, Prada campaigns, and venture funding from Sequoia. It took a team of 9 to puppeteer every post. Now an LLM can do what that team did.
In this conversation, Trevor walks through hi…
Episode 427 - Isaac Bratzel - Founder & CEO, AvatarOS
If digital humans are evolving, Isaac Bratzel is the scientist altering their DNA. Beginning his career as a character artist (because it represented the biggest challenge), Isaac helped create Amelia, a conversational AI with a digital human face, and then went on to establish virtual social media…
Is Social Media Good or Bad? The Algorithm, AI Influencers & the Night Castro Got SWATted | TEN21 Ep. 9
Is social media the greatest invention of our lifetime — or the new cigarettes? In Episode 9 of the TEN21 Podcast, Castro and the crew debate whether social media is good or bad, pulling from real experience building businesses, careers, and communities online — and from some of the wildest things …
S3Ep5:Digital Dreams: The Influence of Virtual Influencers
In this episode, Dr. Lauren Siegel and Dr. Ryan Young interview Dr Tippayanet Sorosrungruang about virtual influencers and her research on human–AI interaction, AI-enabled persuasion, and ethics. She distinguishes avatars (representations of real people) from virtual influencers (fictional characte…
68! Human Brands and The Vertical Video Debate
Why do we feel the need to humanize brands? And the great debate: vertical or horizontal?
This week, Joey and special bird Hannah talk about a Ritz-sponsored magazine, Lil Miquela, burger offsets, some Landscape mode science words, sizzle videos, and how it would be to watch The Revenant in a vert…
Humans vs Algorithms on Broadway
Max Wolf Friedlich is being celebrated for writing the play Job, a testy two-hander which knits together the world of therapy and big tech to create a tense stand-off between actors Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon. But while the play, which recently opened on Broadway, is seeing Wolf Friedlich's n…
LARPing Towards Bethlehem w/ Max Wolf Friedlich
Max Wolf Friedlich is a playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the Broadway play 'Job.' His new play, 'The Holes', is showing at The Wild Project. We discuss perverts, larping, Lil Miquela, Shia LaBeouf, theatre as a unifying force and more. Subscribe to our Patreon and Youtube.
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