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”

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
    3·
    7 days ago

    There are some clues to spot to determine that this video is AI-generated. Aliyah’s voice is robotic and emotionless, which doesn’t match the crying face on the screen. In one clip, she is sewing a leather belt where there wouldn’t usually be sewing at all. When she wipes a tear off her face, the stream of liquid below where she wipes also disappears.

    So, it seems like the key to these grifts is that the human learns how to cleanup AI mistakes in post.

    I don’t think experts would be able to detect AI content from someone with decent video editing experience