On the internet,nobody knows you’re a human
by Kate Lindsay from The Verge - All Posts on (#696FM)
Illustration by Brian Scagnelli / The Verge Last April, 27-year-old Nicole posted a TikTok video about feeling burned out in her career. When she checked the comments the next day, however, a different conversation was going down.
Jeez, this is not a real human," one commenter wrote. I'm scared."
No legit she's AI," another said.
Nicole, who lives in Germany, has alopecia. It's a condition that can result in hair loss across a person's body. Because of this, she's used to people looking at her strangely, trying to figure out what's off," she says over a video call. But I've never had this conclusion made, that [I] must be CGI or whatever."
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