AI avatars in digital blackface want to sell you this belt buckle
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Can race, guilt, and empathy get you to pay $40 for this $9 belt buckle on TikTok?

Can race, guilt, and empathy get you to pay $40 for this $9 belt buckle on TikTok?

No paywall: https://archive.is/nxp3m (or use noscript)

They’re doing a/b tests on the headline.

Sometimes the article is “AI avatars in digital blackface want to sell you this belt buckle”, sometimes is “AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk”

  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    8 days ago

    Calling me racist for factually pointing out how this is objectively the same as any other advertisement:

    • is projection
    • does not help your argument or convince anyone that you’re right
    • is just as much of a deceptive appeal to emotions by using racial issues as these advertisements are, which is pretty hypocritical

    Looks like I’m the only one of the two of us who is actually taking these issues seriously and willing to have a serious conversation about them. I’ll continue to do so, despite your baseless accusation that is designed to silence. Nothing I have said can be construed as “not liking black people”.