
AI technology is used to create virtual "filial sons" to carry out live broadcasts, raising social concerns about the digital security and fraud risks of elders.
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The economic dividends of Internet celebrities have peaked, and competition in live streaming is fierce. AI technology has been abused to create virtual avatars for fraud.
The Internet celebrity economy has become a bubble. Recently, many live broadcast teams have admitted that advertising costs have skyrocketed and dividends have peaked. It has become a cruel reality that "it is getting harder and harder to make money with goods." Unexpectedly, even this job will be snatched away by AI! Recently, a young Didi who calls himself "Xiao Hai" has become popular on China's short video platform. He bursts into tears every day in front of the camera and shouts "Auntie, mom, help me" to his elders. He claims that he has not eaten for three days and is struggling to survive in order to improve his performance. The realistic acting skills made a lot of mother-in-law fans cry, and they ordered frantically to clear their shopping carts. They sold everything from soy milk powder, rags, jade pendants... and even made the 79-year-old grandmother so obsessed that she took a train alone to find the child.
However, after investigation, it was discovered that this "Xiaohai" was not a real person at all, but a digital person created by an AI algorithm. Tears were special effects and misfortune was standard. It could be copied in large quantities with one click, and it was specially designed to kill the silver-haired people who longed for companionship.
Seeing that high technology has been turned into a tool to exploit the elderly, netizens immediately aroused the anger and denounced this kind of fraud that takes advantage of loneliness as having no moral bottom line. This phenomenon also forced Chinese officials to intervene in the investigation, reminding children to pay more attention to their elders’ mobile browsing activities to prevent their elders’ kindness and savings from being robbed by “digital tears”.
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