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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge 2 place · today 06:18 EDT

The influencer in this AI Vodafone ad isn’t real

I opened TikTok while visiting Germany last week and stumbled across a Vodafone ad being presented by a woman who probably doesn’t exist. The ad includes several “tells” that suggest the presenter was artificially created using generative AI — the unnatural style and movement of her hair, the way her moles disappear, and the uncanny […]

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