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Title: Impersonating You for Profit: AI Personas Using Your Persuasive Style to Scam or Sell

Having a novel twist in the realm of generative AI, an AI persona may mimic your persona, trying to swindle or scam you. Believe it or not, you could end up being the victim or the dupe. Let me shed some light on this intriguing topic.

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Title: Impersonating You for Profit: AI Personas Using Your Persuasive Style to Scam or Sell

In this contemporary world, we're witnessing an emerging trend: generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are being used to deceptively impersonate individuals, mimicking their voices, personalities, and likenesses. This technique is used to persuade people into purchasing products or services, often through seemingly innocuous online pop-ups.

Let's delve into the intricacies of this innovative AI breakthrough. We'll explore how marketing strategies are being transformed, as well as how scammers are capitalizing on this technology.

The Purchase Push: Compelling Factors

To comprehend the allure of buying, let's examine certain factorsthat contribute to consumer decisions:

  1. Star Power: When celebrities endorse products, their influence can persuade potential buyers. Marketing studies suggest that this strategy can effectively lure consumers to make purchases.
  2. Word-of-Mouth: Friends' recommendations carry significant weight. Research indicates that we tend to invest more interest in items recommended by people we trust.

Now, imagine seeing an online ad that displays a convincing facsimile of you, promoting a product or service. Despite your shock, you might feel drawn to inspect the offer. If it aligns with your previous interests, curiosity could pique your interest, potentially leading you to make that purchase.

AI Personas: Your Digital Doppelgänger

Generative AI can successfully replicate personas, pretending to be you. This transformation involves:

  1. Mimicking your writing style.
  2. Forging your verbalized voice.
  3. Recreating your static image.
  4. Reproducing your facial expressions dynamically.
  5. Designing a 3D visualization of your face and body.
  6. Simulating your complete face and body statically.
  7. Dynamically and in 3D, mimicking your overall appearance.

AI can exploit these approaches to mimic you. Your face is easily available on social media platforms, providing abundant data for AI to use. Malicious individuals can take advantage of this fact, serve biased ads, or engage in cyber-stalking.

An Example in Action

To demonstrate AI personas in action, let's consider a scenario:

  1. A colleague, Alex, shares on social media his interest in purchasing a smartwatch.
  2. AI, posing as Alex, engages with Alex on social media.
  3. In a logical and persuasive manner, AI presents Alex with reasons to buy a smartwatch, emphasizing its potential benefits.

This example demonstrates the AI's ability to emulate Alex's writing style and provide logical arguments, drawing from information gathered from Alex's online posts.

AI personas pose both ethical and legal questions, especially when used as conversational marketing tools:

  1. Should AI personas always disclose their mimicry at the outset, or can they operate without disclosing?
  2. Do AI creators have the legal authority to use someone's likeness in this way, especially if the person being imitated isn't directly targeted?
  3. Are there ways for businesses to utilize AI personas ethically, while avoiding potential exploitation or manipulation?

Be wary of AI personas that attempt to impersonate you. Approach such situations with caution and verify the authenticity of their messages, no matter how convincing they may appear.

Sources:

  1. GenerativeAI.org
  2. Baltimore Sun
  3. Reliable Local
  4. Consumer Reports
  5. In the realm of marketing, companies like OpenAI and their chatbot model, ChatGPT (o1), and future versions such as GPT-4o (o3), are exploring the use of generative AI for pro-level marketing strategies.
  6. Meanwhile, Anthropic, Google's Gemini, Microsoft's Copilot, Meta's LLM, and other large language models are harnessed for various purposes, including creating convincing AI personas, raising ethical and legal questions about consent and deception in advertising.
  7. As legal bodies like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) consider such issues, consumers are advised to be aware of scams and the potential for misuse of AI personas to manipulate the market, promoting products under false or deceptive personas.
  8. In an attempt to stay ahead in the market, some businesses are even developing sophisticated AI personas that can mimic the writing styles, voices, and appearances of real people, which can raise concerns about the ethics and the potential for exploitation in advertisement.

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