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Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by bad_haircut72 on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @06:32PM (#42394305)
CD players did not spell the end of live music. I have never really understood people who pay money to OnlyFans models but I do think its not just to see some boobs on a screen? its to experience a (para)social relationship with another person.
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Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by kevinventullo on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @07:47PM (#42394917)
On the other hand it is not completely trivial to determine whether a live performance is really live versus the artist lip-syncing.
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Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by elevatedastalt on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @07:55PM (#42394962)
Most of the experience of a live performance (especially for pop artists) is in being there, with a crowd, and the soundscape of a giant auditorium or stadium, so the lip-syncing doesn't matter much either way.
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Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday December 12, 2024 @12:11AM (#42396415)
AI can almost handle the social relationship with another person already. Things are going to get weird.
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Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by hmmm-i-wonder on Thursday December 12, 2024 @09:03AM (#42399186)
I just don't get parasocial relationships.

Do people honestly convince themselves some stranger performing on the internet in a very one way relationship somehow truly cares about them and not their ability to monetize.

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Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by im3w1l on Saturday December 14, 2024 @11:28AM (#42417999)
I think it's a case of the conscious mind knowingly tricking the subconscious mind. Because doing so feels good. Compare with artificial sweeteners.
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