YouTube is now letting users create an AI avatar that looks and sounds like them for use in Shorts. The creation process is available in the main YouTube app and YouTube Create. It involves capturing a “live selfie” by recording your face and voice (by reading a few prompts).
Mark Zuckerberg is building a photorealistic AI avatar of himself to ‘Engage’ with employees. The Zuckerberg avatar project has splintered off from another project to build a “CEO agent”, originally designed to support Zuckerberg himself. If the AI avatar goes well, then it could be rolled out so that other famous or notable people can make similar clones of themselves.
So now this will allow millions of people to create worthless content and post on YouTube to basically water down the actual useful content. Algorithms are pushing more fluf than real content creators. At some point YouTube will not need content creators. Content can all be created by AI. Talk about information overload. At some point you won't know what is real and what is not. For example the Zuckerberg example. Once the avatar is created, anyone with access to his avatar can create content posing as Zuckerberg. What could go wrong?
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