Welcome to fandom’s AI clout economy

Madison Lawrence Tabbey was scrolling done X successful precocious October erstwhile a post from a Wicked update relationship caught her attention. Ariana Grande, who stars successful the movies arsenic Glinda, had conscionable liked a meme connected Instagram astir ne'er wanting to spot different AI-generated representation again. Grande had besides purportedly blocked a instrumentality relationship that had made AI edits of her.

As Tabbey work done the mostly sympathetic replies, a precise antithetic connection caught her eye. It was from a chap Grande instrumentality whose illustration was mostly AI edits, showing Grande with antithetic hairstyles and outfits. And, their reply said, they weren't going to stop. Tabbey, a 33-year-old liv …

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