But is „en-human-ised“ communication the thing we really want? On the other hand, it’s hard to overstate how existentially threatening OpenAI is to companies like Google and Meta

Scandal-free, cheap, and cool: While Virtual Influencers and even Virtual Workers have appeared on the fringes of the western internet, they’ve been popping up more and more in China’s cyberspace. Those virtual people are a combination of animation, sound tech and machine learning that create digitized human beings who can sing and even interact on a livestream. They open up a whole new business worth millions of dollars by 2025 already.