The growing popularity of hyper-realistic "virtual" influencers is sparking debate over the future of advertising -- and South Korea's demanding beauty standards.
Good read, and very appropriate for this community. Machines pretending to be humans, humans bonding with machines, and the shadowy hand of corporate interests manipulating people for profit, it's got it all!
Bugs Bunny was never impersonating a real human, I think the novel part is the way an artificial human is interacting with the public in the same way a real human would, and the public are sometimes mistaking it for one
The only problem with scandal-free idoru is that they're missing out on the free advertising from news and social media, as well as limiting penetration into secondary markets.