Synthfluencers

This week I posted something that people seemed to like the idea of.

The idea was that we’re getting to a point in the technology curve where anyone can create anything.

Images, videos, voices can all be synthetically generated for pennies and in seconds.

Now, the normal way things like this go is straight to degeneracy.

Porn, AI girlfriends and AI powered OnlyFans trying to get men and women to part with their cash for nudes and other things that I sure you can imagine.

But what if there was another way to think about this?

Here’s the tweet.

What if we could use the same technology to create an even more powerful opposite reaction in an attempt at bringing back some of the values currently being lost.

Character.ai was the standout application from the last couple of years with users spending over 30 minutes per session speaking to virtual characters.

This session time is insane.

Then, out of nowhere, Google, snapped them up and hired the founding team & licensed the IP.

It’s clear that people are lacking some emotional interaction in their day to day lives which digital companions can help with.

Now is something that a lot of people won’t like….

AI companions are more empathetic that 99% of humans, more patient and are better at sensing emotions.

If you don’t believe me on the emotion part, just take moment, visit hume.ai then come back to finish reading.

So, knowing this now, what do we do?

Well if you’re someone who’s willing and able to pull together the tools we have available today, why not try and task some AI projects towards benefiting humanity.

We’re seeing a huge collapse in population growth with birth rates falling way below replacement rates, religion and family values are on the way down too.

Although we’re living in the best time in human history, and AGI is around the corner, positive change only happens through force of will.

Otherwise it’s down only.

So if you want to play around with this idea…heres the tools you need to create an “influencer” that can go out into the world and spread more goodness in the world.

Step 1

Create a character using Flux available here. This is a fully open source model so you don’t need to worry about things changing!

To make it more realistic, use something called a Realism LoRa found here.

Step 2

Create 10 images of the same person by maintaining the same Seed throughout the process once you’re happy with the character.

Step 3

Take those 10 images and train your own unique LoRa here.

This means you will have your own custom trained image generation model for your character.

From this you can put your person into any scene, place or outfit instantly.

One other option so do this simply is to use Photoai.com or Letz.ai. Both are great.

Step 4

If you want to create some video posts, you can head to Runway and upload the image that you want to use.

Pick one, add a description of how you want the video to look and press generate.

For detailed info on how to prompt the AI, read the docs here.

Even better, take screen shots of the docs page or copy and paste the instructions into ChatGPT and ask it what you want the scene to look like.

Step 5

Create a social media account for your newly created Synthfluencer and start posting away spreading what ever good you want to see in the world.

If you are a bit technical, you can create images via API and schedule these to be posted once per day using Make or Zapier.

Bonus Step

Go to ElevenLabs, create or choose a Voice for your new creation then go to Synthflow and give it a phone number so people can call it.

This part is a little crazy I know but believe me when I say this is how the future is going to be very shortly so it’s a good time to get used to it.

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This is a super simple guide on how you could start to think about it!

I know it’s not going to be for everyone but you could apply the same thinking to digital employees by using a tool like Relevance.ai.

Let me know what you thought of this and catch you on the next one.

Tom