Would you buy from a deepfaked brand like this? Why or why not? It looks like small businesses are getting deepfaked now! Meet Ethos, Austin’s AI-generated 1 restaurant. From the menu to the “croissant hippo,” everything is fake—but so convincing it has 72K followers and loads of engagement. Reddit sleuths uncovered the truth: the only functional part of the site is the merch store. Honestly, we’d buy a Croissant Hippo shirt in a heartbeat—accidental genius? This raises some fun (and serious) questions: How will AI-generated businesses impact consumer trust? And what happens when illusions like this turn into real ventures? --- This post was migrated from connect.com and was originally published at an earlier date.
Sayantani Banerjee Jaclyn Elwell Yoel Ben-Avraham I’d like to ask: If you discovered a product you loved was created by an AI-generated brand, would it change how you feel about it? --- This post was migrated from connect.com and was originally published at an earlier date.
Whoa! As a native Austinite… well, I’m a native Austinite for whatever that’s worth. If a brand were using fake anything, I would not participate with them anymore. No matter how much a hippo croissant t-shirt appeals to me. --- This post was migrated from connect.com and was originally published at an earlier date.