A RANT.
I have to give you some context before launching into my rant. I have three Instagram handles, "blueeyeddemon" which is my more general personal one, "neal.noakes.books" where I post endlessly about my books, because if don't who will, and "smudgepkmn" where I at the young age of 41 gush about all things pokemon. I tell you this, because a few days ago, I was followed by the above profile on my Blueeyeddemon account, I reported the account and blocked it. Now you may think that this is a bit extreme for a new follower. Well, today, when this profile followed my book insta page, I did the same thing, and I am here to tell you why. This profile is AI. The 'woman' is not a real person, the videos are fake, the voice is fake, the travel blog format is fake. Using reference material, the AI has created a generic, uncanny valley level of "idealised beauty" - the videos are generated, scripted and delivered in a "palatable" way t...