• ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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    171 day ago

    I have a feeling this is simply idiotic. Travel influencers are kind of useless anyway, so automatic synthetic bullshit replacing handmade artisanal bullshit is not really the biggest loss to humanity caused by AI.

    • @Obi@sopuli.xyz
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      13 hours ago

      Right, if anything it’s a positive if it means fewer “influencers” travelling all over the place using tons of CO2 and causing gentrification wherever they go + damage to the environment on precious world heritage sites then I say great!

      Responsible, high quality documentary will always be a thing, these ais aren’t replacing that anytime soon.

    • David GerardOPMA
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      16 hours ago

      Nah, people have loved travel stories for centuries. The markety fakeness to the point of straight up synthesis is the problem.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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        715 hours ago

        Oh, I love travel stories. Travel influencers make it about themselves and not the place, that’s my gripe.

  • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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    Isn’t the whole point of travel influencers to allow conventionally attractive twenty-somethings to badger smallish local communities into giving them free room and board? If there isn’t a just-out-of-college ex-cheerleader trying to get an exhausted b&b owner to comp them their weekend in exchange for a half-dozen Instagram photos, then what’s even the point?

    • David GerardOPMA
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      716 hours ago

      saw a marketer on bsky point out the attraction: influencers, and particularly travel influencers, are the most unreliable arseholes you’ll ever find yourself paying to do something, and I can see that

  • @maol
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    714 hours ago

    You’re disposable! You’re replaceable! Buy our product!