[humanistbot]

> But who wants to listen to a computer copy of someone else's voice? No one.

I think you underestimate the cultural desire and pressure for a perfect presentation of one's self. It started out with mass marketing, where every advertisement and authorized photos of celebrities published in the last 50 years are in some way retouched, cleaned up, photoshopped. This cancer spread to social media and metastisized it with filters. Now Zoom by default smooths my patchy face. The next logical step is basically VTube but with your own face instead of an avatar. Conventionally attractive people have huge advantages, after all. If it starts to be normal, then those who don't will be disadvantaged. Maybe family calls are different, but in professional settings where you're trying to influence others, it's an advantage.

[keiferski]

Meh, David Foster Wallace made this prediction thirty years ago and I don't think it's actually come true. Most people simply...don't care. The majority of influencers and other people who are on camera for a living are just average looking folks.