{"id":57548,"date":"2024-10-14T12:29:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T01:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=57548"},"modified":"2024-10-14T12:29:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T01:29:18","slug":"why-ai-created-virtual-avatars-are-the-future-of-digital-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=57548","title":{"rendered":"Why AI-created virtual avatars are the future of digital selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Virtual_Influencer.jpg\" alt=\"Virtual Influencer\" width=\"757\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Virtual_Influencer.jpg 757w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Virtual_Influencer-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome to the world of digital influencing, where AI avatars promote products and sing pop songs. Iva Filipovi\u0107 of EPAM Systems, Inc. explains why this trend is here to stay.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Tom: With all this AI, are we losing us?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrum.com\/opinion\/2024\/05\/03\/why-ai-created-virtual-avatars-are-the-future-digital-selling\">https:\/\/www.thedrum.com\/opinion\/2024\/05\/03\/why-ai-created-virtual-avatars-are-the-future-digital-selling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the world of digital influencing, where AI avatars promote products and sing pop songs. Iva Filipovi\u0107 of EPAM Systems, Inc. explains why this trend is here to stay. (Tom: With all this AI, are we losing us?) https:\/\/www.thedrum.com\/opinion\/2024\/05\/03\/why-ai-created-virtual-avatars-are-the-future-digital-selling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57550,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57548\/revisions\/57550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}