Avatars are real now

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...e=articleShare

There are now businesses that sell fake people. On the website Generated.Photos, you can buy a “unique, worry-free” fake person for $2.99, or 1,000 people for $1,000. If you just need a couple of fake people — for characters in a video game, or to make your company website appear more diverse — you can get their photos for free on ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com. Adjust their likeness as needed; make them old or young or the ethnicity of your choosing. If you want your fake person animated, a company called Rosebud.AI can do that and can even make them talk.

If you’re able, click in to the article to see their interactive face changer sliders

Given the pace of improvement, it’s easy to imagine a not-so-distant future in which we are confronted with not just single portraits of fake people but whole collections of them — at a party with fake friends, hanging out with their fake dogs, holding their fake babies. It will become increasingly difficult to tell who is real online and who is a figment of a computer’s imagination.

A company called Clearview AI scraped the web of billions of public photos — casually shared online by everyday users — to create an app capable of recognizing a stranger from just one photo. The technology promises superpowers: the ability to organize and process the world in a way that wasn’t possible before.

kinda creepy how lifelike it all is

[m2711c]

the next step to the singularity has begun....

[east or bust]

Living in a shack in the woods cut off from society is sounding more and more appealing.

[Mazderati]

Clearview doesn't seem like a company that has people's best interests in mind. The CEO has a sordid history.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/ceo-sp...-technology/#x

[PB]

Living in a shack in the woods cut off from society is sounding more and more appealing.

Or, just down load your consciousness and get rid of that floppy meat sack.