{"id":100869,"date":"2020-01-15T01:06:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T09:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/sexy-robot-influencers-are-taking-over-instagram-and-coming-for-your-jobs"},"modified":"2020-01-15T01:06:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T09:06:50","slug":"sexy-robot-influencers-are-taking-over-instagram-and-coming-for-your-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/sexy-robot-influencers-are-taking-over-instagram-and-coming-for-your-jobs","title":{"rendered":"Sexy robot influencers are taking over Instagram \u2014 and coming for your jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In reality, Shudu, who has 196,000 followers on Instagram, is<\/em> more painting than person. She\u2019s a 3D digital animation made by an Englishman named Cameron-James Wilson, who bills his creation as \u201cthe world\u2019s first digital supermodel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Influencers, beware: hot bots are coming for your jobs<\/a>. Shudu is representative of a growing crop of beautiful and highly realistic avatars<\/a> on social media, created for the sole purpose of gaining followers and making money. And it\u2019s working \u2014 these otherworldly beauties are landing lucrative partnerships with the biggest names in fashion, such as Balmain, Calvin Klein<\/a> and Dior. Social-media-savvy celebrities are embracing them as well; Kim Kardashian, Bella Hadid and Zendaya have all appeared in photos and videos with their digital counterparts. Even top modeling agencies, including IMG and Lipps, have signed on to manage the most popular bots.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past few years, this has really taken off,\u201d Wilson, who runs the virtual-influencer company the Diigitals<\/a>, tells The Post. Wilson, 30, now controls the careers of seven robot models who, like human influencers, post sponsored content on social media for money. \u201cMy company has grown massively. This is a really lucrative industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In reality, Shudu, who has 196,000 followers on Instagram, is more painting than person. She\u2019s a 3D digital animation made by an Englishman named Cameron-James Wilson, who bills his creation as \u201cthe world\u2019s first digital supermodel.\u201d Influencers, beware: hot bots are coming for your jobs. Shudu is representative of a growing crop of beautiful and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}