{"id":12143,"date":"2023-11-06T00:38:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T23:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/how-chinese-influencers-use-ai-digital-clones-of-themselves-to-pump-out-content\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T00:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T23:38:53","slug":"how-chinese-influencers-use-ai-digital-clones-of-themselves-to-pump-out-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/how-chinese-influencers-use-ai-digital-clones-of-themselves-to-pump-out-content\/","title":{"rendered":"How Chinese influencers use AI digital clones of themselves to pump out content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions over honesty and legality as livestreamers, particularly in online shopping, use avatars to boost their earnings<\/p>\n<p>In September, Chen Yiru, a Taiwanese influencer with nearly nine million fans on Weibo, livestreamed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y8TTeihzdCQ\">footage<\/a> of himself eating chicken feet for a jaw-grinding 15 hours.<\/p>\n<p>His followers were suitably wowed \u2013 until some started to question if such a feat was humanly possible. The small print on the video stream confirmed their suspicions: \u201cFor display purposes only, not a real person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/06\/chinese-influencers-using-ai-digital-clones-of-themselves-to-pump-out-content\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2db6448ffa74101abc05d6df9a42b3c3ecb5537b\/0_0_4200_2520\/master\/4200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=166d486efcb7e83653211e93d0f60945\" title=\"How Chinese influencers use AI digital clones of themselves to pump out content\" \/>Questions over honesty and legality as livestreamers, particularly in online shopping, use avatars to boost their earnings<br \/>\nIn September, Chen Yiru, a Taiwanese influencer with nearly nine million fans on Weibo, livestreamed footage of himself eating chicken feet for a jaw-grinding 15 hours.<br \/>\nHis followers were suitably wowed \u2013 until some started to question if such a feat was humanly possible. The small print on the video stream confirmed their suspicions: \u201cFor display purposes only, not a real person.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions over honesty and legality as livestreamers, particularly in online shopping, use avatars to boost their earnings In September, Chen Yiru, a Taiwanese influencer with nearly nine million fans on Weibo, livestreamed footage of himself eating chicken feet for a jaw-grinding 15 hours. His followers were suitably wowed \u2013 until some started to question if &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/how-chinese-influencers-use-ai-digital-clones-of-themselves-to-pump-out-content\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Chinese influencers use AI digital clones of themselves to pump out content<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}