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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by not_a_moth on Sunday June 17, 2018 @02:56PM (#17333705)
"Influencer". From browsing the influencers in the article, the formula appears to be a) expensive clothes b) expensive hotels c) trailing photographer, d) regurgitation of corny "I am so cool" lines like "It takes cool people to do epic shit", "No one here gives a fuck".

Do you think we could design an AI, maybe GANs and caption generation, to generate influencers like these? The hotels could pay the AI makers to use their images, and would solve their problem of actually having to host them.

Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by Ayraa on Sunday June 17, 2018 @03:22PM (#17333852)
Believe it or not, really realistic looking computer generated Instagram influencers already exist.

Example: https://www.instagram.com/lilmiquela/ - 1.2m followers

Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by s0rce on Sunday June 17, 2018 @03:30PM (#17333883)
Does this account have followers because its computer generated or in spite of that. Seems like the former.
Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by afro88 on Sunday June 17, 2018 @05:14PM (#17334369)
That’s not AI though, it’s digital art of a computer generated character in the form of an Instagram account.
Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by pjc50 on Sunday June 17, 2018 @03:28PM (#17333872)
It's being done: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/23/the-makers-of-the-virtual-...

(Predicted in the Gibson novel Idoru, and no doubt elsewhere)

Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by geodel on Sunday June 17, 2018 @10:43PM (#17335658)
I think using AI itself sound tech influencer trend. This can be a customized old-school bullshit generator e.g.

http://www.bullshitgenerator.com/