Influencer Bots, Bad Bets and Grocery Bills: The Week in Review | U.S. News Decision Points
Artificial intelligence is filling up our social media feeds and driving up prices, but the physical world still has its perks – like this week’s beautiful spring weather. I’m Sidney Slon, and here’s the week in review. Monday To start the week, Olivier examined the rise of AI-generated influencers and why AI is making it harder to determine reality from fiction on social media. Many of the content creators posting about last week’s Coachella, the popular music and arts festival held every year in Southern California, were not all real people, The Verge reports. A number of influencer posts showed AI-generated avatars with celebrities or around the festival grounds. In many cases, the posts attracted millions of views despite featuring glitches and “uncannily attractive figures,” author Jess Weatherbed wrote. But it’s not just Coachella content that’s being AI-generated. The New York Times reviewed a multitude of right-leaning social media videos that featured a diverse group of people using the same script soliciting comments from Trump supporters. The accounts did not identify they were AI-generated but …