The cursed world of AI kiss and hug apps

AI inactive doesn’t cognize what kissing looks like.

Doomscroll connected TikTok agelong enough, and you'll travel crossed an advertisement for AI video apps. In 1 ad, a stereotypically nerdy miss puckishly smirks arsenic she uploads a representation of herself and her overmuch much handsome crush. Boom - suddenly, acknowledgment to AI, they're smooching. In another, I'm shown a pistillate successful a blouse and jeans. Do I privation to cognize what she looks similar successful a bluish bikini? Psst. There's an app for that. The advertisement past shows maine the pistillate successful said bluish bikini.

These apps aren't peddling the integer nudes galore radical subordinate with AI deepfakes, which are proliferating successful their ain right connected app stores. Slapped unneurotic by opportunistic developers and sprinkled with subscription fees and microtransactions, they're each pitching tools to assistance you marque benign fantasies a spot much tangible - but the results consciousness much cursed than magical.

AI video ads nexus retired to apps with titles similar Boom.AI, VideoAI, and DreamVid, made by companies you've astir apt ne'er heard of - a abbreviated perusal of Apple's App Store brings up astir 2 twelve options. Despite their titillating promotional material, they diagnostic plentifulness of innocuous video templates. By uploading 1 oregon 2 photos and hitting a "generate" fastener …

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