The Amazing Rise of the AI Influencer — Are Bots Speaking to Bots Now?
<p>Are you ready for the fake influencers, journalists and conference speakers? And for the friendly, verbose AI commenters?</p>
<p>We recently <a href="https://medium.com/bitchy/how-to-make-your-conference-more-diverse-by-inviting-imaginary-women-experts-6d059779ce92?sk=2cea57d3cf82fef79d6e4f0d7d7b1242" rel="noopener">learned</a> that the organizer of a tech conference used fake profiles of women speakers and posed on Instagram as coding_unicorn, a female tech influencer.</p>
<p>As absurd as this sounds, he’s in good company. Catfishing readers, followers and conference attendees with fake people is fast becoming the norm.</p>
<p>We’re witnessing the dawn of AI influencer accounts. And believe me. It’s getting hard to spot the difference. The Internet is being flooded with fake personas. Their viral posts are awash with stale AI comments.</p>
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