We are now witnessing the collapse of reality and trust with artificial intelligence (AI). A few moments ago, I was watching a mouth-dropping podcast, The Erasure of Women Continues with AI Girlfriends and Influencers, aired by influencer Amala Ekpunobi, August 4, 2023. Men are signing up for and paying to follow generated AI influencers. The women are virtual. They are not flesh and blood girlfriends. Either men cannot tell the difference between a real human and a virtual woman or the men do not care!
I immediately thought of the parallels with race.
Imagine a world where AI pretends to be a Black friend or woke activist. And AI gets away with it! There is clearly demand on social media for extreme expressions of racial animus against white people. Sometimes, I cringe when I view Tik Tok shorts devoid of empathy for one’s fellow man.
If you’re paying money to subscribe to a black woke activist, what guarantee do you have now and going forward that the woke activist is a real human? Why wouldn’t subscribers (to get their supply) pay less subscribers fees for AI Black woke activists that appear like the real thing?
Consider the recent AI portrayal of MSNBC commentator Joy Reid. AI created a virtual Joy Reid who hawked weight loss products on the Anderson Cooper show. Incredible!
I am not a fan of Joy Reid but her experience is a harbinger of things to come courtesy of AI.
Allow your imagination to run wild for a moment. What will it mean for the income prospects of Ibram X. Kendi, Nikkole Hannah Jones and BLM if AI can create more extreme and radical depictions of said influencers with the click of a button? In the ideological race to the bottom, Kendi, Jones and BLM are no match for the incredible power of AI in the coming two to three years.
No match at all! Being tricked by AI influencers on matters of race is just a matter of time. Tic. Tock. Tic. Tock.
Will it be a compliment by the year 2025 in Woke circles to say “You sound like an AI Woke Influencer?” The rise of virtual influencers on race is inevitable.
And let’s talk about the money. In the world of AI girlfriends, virtual influencers are posting videos and photos to a hungry following. At least one AI girlfriend has earned $70,000 in one week! One week! As the AI software gets better and better, the content will seem more authentic.
I can foresee an AI woke activist with millions of followers charging $1 a minute and raking in $70,000 a week with ease. Who needs a human Kendi, Jones and BLM?
So much viral stuff on Tik Tok and Instagram is staged and fake anyway. The next step of AI generated woke activism is a software click away.
This possible development is sad to me. AI influencers will be exploiting young people, lonely and without purpose, who already believe Blackness is Oppression. Nothing else matters.
I leave you with this influencer clip. At first, I was appalled at the extremism. Then, I was annoyed that the activist who hates white people has a white boyfriend! Now, I wonder whether this influencer is AI in disguise…..
See 6:48 to 8:15 and 9:55 to 10:30.