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by verdverm 48 days ago
It's not useful, it's dystopian and concerning. People are going to become addicted to it
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People get addicted to a lot of stuff. Even then, the avatars are supposed to help reduce churn.
Fake "people" will likely increase churn. Have you seen polling numbers for Ai? Chat, especially fake video people, is likely to get heavily regulated. I'm pro ai, but I will reject anyone who tries to get me to use it and shame anyone who builds something like this.
What polls? also, the churn thing is testable. If I demonstrated retention numbers would you be convinced ? In any event. Huge difference between synthetic people and embodied agents.
Anti ai is all the rage right now, polls about that sentiment are easy to find when they aren't beamed into your eyes without your choosing
Genuinely happy to be wrong if there's a number behind it, but "go look" isn't the number.
If you want to create a business around this, as it sounds, you should want to know how the general public feels about Ai and be paying attention to the regulatory developments. We are in a period of dramatic shift, leaders in the transition pay attention to all facets.
"hey, people get addicted to cocaine, too, what's your issue with my meth lab?"
if you think personas are net destructive then make the case
So sorry