#my hubris was like well i'm better now i'm grown now surely i can do this purely fp2 n on strategy alone. and well. that's on me

[asiancatboy]

deleted the game account n uninstalled the app. everyone say congrats hải good job hải 👍🏽

[mingi-bubu]

i do be finding people who disagree that’s it’s any more fucked up that Kda. Why do you think it’ll destroy the boundary between idols and fans because surely fans will know the AI is fake and not a real person

Ahh sorry I had taken a nap after my class this morning bc like I was up late last night bc like irl life said the years start coming and they don't stop coming you know? Also, sorry for no read more, I'm on mobile.

Anyways, so as to answer your question, I think that why this will destroy the boundaries between fan and idol even more is bc of how fans act when an idol does something that is too "human" even tho we all go into kpop knowing that our favorite idols are projecting personas to the fans/audience. Like super giggly Mark and TY may really be a part of their true, behind-the-scenes personality but regardless it's definitely played up for in front of the camera. TBZ Jacob purposefully makes his voice lighter and more comforting and doesn't show many emotions besides happy or confused (which is something he's talked about actually in his generation z videos). These are just some examples of idols' personas that, should they not be adjusted instantly to please fans, will cause undeserved backlash towards the idol and the rest of the group. And this is again, just when it's a regular human.

When we bring in technology like AIs, these things are coded to be the perfect image of what the audience/fans will want to see. As Lee Soo Man said himself, they're designed for the user to do anything with that they can't with a human idol. That's dangerous not only for the user, who can indulge in fantasies on a whole different level than say a reader insert scenario, but also for the idol who now has to live up to computer generated perfection, an impossible task. Fans get upset with female idols if they don't look happy all the time, unless it's that idol's concept for her persona, and it's even worse if they think that she was frowning at someone or something. These girls in aespa are going to be young adults (late teens, early 20s) and/or teenagers. They are going to make mistakes. They are going to chafe at things out of their control. They are going to be human. It doesn't matter how well SM has trained them to act in front of the camera; at the end of the day, these are not full grown adults who have a better control over their emotions. They're kids who are being thrown into a concept that they know nothing about and hasn't been done before. And then having to act in front of a camera with an AI who is totally and completely based off of you is going to cause issues.

Another issue I have with the AI concept is how they are going to look. We have seen Karina and KarinAI already. We can see how.. animated these AIs are going to be. And for an animation, it works you know? I'll give SM credit where it's due. As an animation, the KarinAI looks very much like the vocaloid-hatsune miku design. And if it were simply a digital group with no irl people in it, I would probably be more in favor of the concept. But the proportions on the body? Those are made for an animation, not to reflect real life. Tall, willowy, big eyes on a small face, skinny that only animations can have. Yes, the fans and the aespa girls know that it is fake, but that image is going to hurt so much more in the long run. Women already have to deal with so much on a daily, even hourly, basis when it comes to beauty standards. It is still going to affect them in some way, even when they know it's fake. Barbie, before her redesign to make her more realistic, had effects on the culture and beauty standards of women. She's a plastic toy for kids. The AIs are going to do the same.

There are going to be consequences for SM and Lee Soo Man's hubris and it is unfortunately going to deeply hurt the idols and any trainees left under them.

Tl;dr: fans are going to be fans regardless of if it's human or not. Having access 24/7 to a computer generated model that is coded to act whatever way pleases you the most is not healthy for the fan and it is not healthy for the idol. Idols get criticized over the smallest of things, like blinking or breathing at the wrong moment while on camera. AIs are only going to exacerbate that issue. There are going to be long lasting effects for these girls emotionally, mentally, and physically and SM does not and will not care. SM and Lee Soo Man will pay for their hubris but it will come at the cost of their idols and any trainees that are still left.