and how people run with that i think is still to be seen, there s kind of the known ways that people produce content, but then i think particularly influencers we have seen that they exist already, these virtual characters that resemble no real person, but have huge followings like millions of followers on instagram. i think we will see more of those kinds of things happening. christopher travers is an expert on virtual influencers and has dedicated his career to the development of these digital characters. we are at about, i would say, 200 virtual influencers created. we re at about 10,000 virtual youtubers created. i would say in 50 years, there will still be human influencers but virtual influencers will be the dominant influencer online. with digital humans becoming easier and faster for anyone to make, there is a sinister side to all of this and one worry is that people will use tech like metahuman
there s kind of the known ways that people produce content, but then i think particularly influencers we have seen that they exist already, these virtual characters that resemble no real person, but have huge followings like millions of followers on instagram. i think we will see more of those kinds of things happening. christopher travers is an expert on virtual influencers and has dedicated his career to the development of these digital characters. we are at about, i would say, 200 virtual influencers created. we re at about 10,000 virtual youtubers created. i would say in 50 years, there will still be human influencers but virtual influencers will be the dominant influencer online. with digital humans becoming easier and faster for anyone to make, there is a sinister side to all of this and one worry is that people will use tech like metahuman for catfishing, which is when someone pretends to be someone they are not.
like metahuman for catfishing, which is when someone pretends to be someone they are not. if i was a catfisher, i would much rather use this kind of fabricated photorealistic imagery rather than trawling the alt web, looking for actually existing photographs out there. so in that respect, it will make catfishing much more harder to detect. people leverage other people s photos and you know, so it s very hard to say in what ways would ill minded people use this? but the amount of work that s required to do something like that, i think you would have to be extremely talented to actually get to a level where you can pull that off. which would be a strange use of talent, but. tech like the metahuman creator is a long way off being able to replicate humans completely. at the moment, its main use will be for creating secondary or non playable characters in games. but with tools like this making digital humans accessible to everyone and anyone, we will certainly be seeing more of them in fu
of those kinds of things happening. christopher travers is an expert on virtual influencers and has dedicated his career to the development of these digital characters. we are at about, i would say, 200 virtual influencers created, we re at about 10,000 virtual youtube is created, i would say in 50 years there will still be human influencers but virtual influencers will be the dominant influencer online. with digital humans becoming easier and fasterfor anyone to make, there is a sinister side to all of this. and one worry is that people will use tech like metahuman for catfishing, which is when someone pretends to be someone they are not. if i was a catfisher i would much rather use this kind of fabricated photorealistic imagery rather than trawling the alt web looking for actually existing photographs out there. so in that sense it will make catfishing much harder to detect. people leverage other people s photos, and so it s very hard to say in what ways would
digital characters. we are at about, i would say, 200 virtual influencers created, we re at about 10,000 virtual youtubers created, i would say in 50 years there will still be human influencers but virtual influencers will be the dominant influencer online. with digital humans becoming easier and faster for anyone to make, there is a sinister side to all of this. and one worry is that people will use tech like metahuman for catfishing, which is when someone pretends to be someone they are not. if i was a catfisher i would much rather use this kind of fabricated photorealistic imagery rather than trawling the alt web looking for actually existing photographs out there. so in that sense it will make catfishing much harder to detect. people leverage other people s photos, and so it s very hard to say in what ways would ill minded people use this? but the amount of work required to do something like that,