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blueSGL OP t1_j2nnos9 wrote

>Brands in China are looking for alternative spokespeople after many celebrities recently ran into negative press about tax evasion or personal scandals, said Sirius Wang, chief product officer and head of marketplace Greater China at Kantar.

>At least 36% of consumers had watched a virtual influencer or digital celebrity perform in the last year, according to a survey published by Kantar this fall. Twenty-one percent had watched a virtual person host an event or broadcast the news, the report said.

Kinda hard to get my head around the fact that it's so main stream there a 1/3rd of people are already exposed to it.

I'm aware that V-tubers over here are a thing but I always saw it as a far more niche.

How long till a main stream US or UK news program is presented by a virtual presenter?

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AvgAIbot t1_j2nqet0 wrote

Probably this year I would say. There’s software that does this ok-ish right now: https://www.synthesia.io/

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blueSGL OP t1_j2nqkxr wrote

oh I'm not talking about implementation. I mean general public acceptance of the use case.

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AvgAIbot t1_j2nr6g2 wrote

Well I think most young people wouldn’t mind, like millennials and younger.

I’m sure boomers would come around quickly, as long as it’s saying what they want to hear.

It depends on if it’s realistic avatars or anime like avatars too. I don’t see many people accepting anime like avatars but definitely human realistic avatars.

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Artanthos t1_j2pueos wrote

The oldest millennials have already hit middle age.

They started turning 40 two years ago.

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sticky_symbols t1_j2qohoi wrote

They're not accepting it, they just clicked a link once in the last year.

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Current_Side_4024 t1_j2nxnc5 wrote

Celebs, who needs them. Their message is important but their ego is not. Just makes everyone else feel like inferior failures

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Inventi t1_j2oy6oa wrote

I do work with digital humans, and it's a cool field. Lots of different technologies come into play.

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Akimbo333 t1_j2q4j4y wrote

Really? How is that?

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Inventi t1_j33xemt wrote

It's fun, but still early for applications. I helped create a few in this documentary: https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/kijk/afleveringen/2021-2022/de-digi-mens.html

Our partner provides the API that gets us our Digital Human through webRTC video streaming to implement at clients. We connect it to a conversational AI platform and create the dialogue and adjust anything we'd like. It works similarly to how Google Stadia worked.

As LLM's get better, so is the potential of Digital Humans

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Akimbo333 t1_j351q71 wrote

Awesome!! I could use a picture and talk to my dead grandfather!!!

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Inventi t1_j362uii wrote

You can start with metahuman creator, quixel bridge and blender to create the digital human.

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