This isn’t Kendall Jenner: People are freaking out over Meta’s ‘creepy’ AI bot ‘Billie’

nypost.com:

replicating us may not be unfounded: Meta set off alarm bells after introducing an AI chatbot named Billie that resembled Kendall Jenner so closely, they thought it was the model herself.

A video introducing the creepy Kardashian doppelganger is currently eliciting screams across the web.“Hey guys it’s Billie,” greets the Jenner facsimile in the clip, which was posted to the AI’s Instagram page @yoursisbillie, where it currently boasts over 118,000 followers.Billie bills herself on Instagram “like having an older sister you can talk to, but who can’t steal your clothes.”In the clip, the “Keeping” — or perhaps creeping — “Up With The Kardashian” star’s digital lookalike tells viewers: “I just want to introduce myself.

I am here to chat whenever you want.“Message me for any advice,” adds Billie, who captures both Jenner’s look and valley girl mannerisms and accent to tee. “I am ready to talk and I hope to talk to you soon.”The eerily-naturalistic chatbot then signs off by blowing a kiss to the camera.

Viewers seemed to find her more dystopian than charming. “This is honestly scary,” fretted one commenter, while another wrote, “I don’t like this, I don’t like where the world is heading, I’m not gonna support this.”One disillusioned viewer wrote, “That is so creepy… I hope it’s actually Kendall just saying she’s Billie and not an AI-generated video because that’s freaky as hell.”The hyperrealistic Jenner-ative AI is part of a recent initiative by Meta — which owns WhatsApp and Instagram — in which they’re paying celebrities millions of dollars for their likenesses so they can create AI assistants to connect to their audience.In accordance, these bots answer queries and engage the user in naturalistic, real-time conversations.