Runway Robots, AI Influencers, and the Slop Takeover (with Taylor Lorenz)

Why are there so many robots on runways these days? From Vogue World Milano to London and New York fashion weeks, this is now, insanely, a Thing! Tech journalist Taylor Lorenz joins Amy to explain what's really going on here, leading Amy to think Vogue got hoodwinked. Plus: the hyperreal AI influencers flooding Instagram — and whether anything can be done to stop them. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 02:20 Robots take the runway 07:20 Unitree, the trolls of robotics 11:00 Why is Vogue doing this? 24:20 Would you let a robot in your house? 27:00 AI influencers & Higgsfield 34:40 How human creators can compete 45:20 Will AI reshape our taste? Buy Taylor's book, Extremely Online: https://link.amazon/B09d2AvU3 Follow Taylor: @taylorlorenz Subscribe to Taylor's newsletter: https://www.usermag.co/ Follow Taylor's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu4srHCWJrrjFyF0hHNi7lVFYssn35zog Subscribe to the Back Row newsletter: https://www.backrow.net/subscribe Follow Back Row: @backrow · Follow Amy: @instamyodell Edited by Chrissi Harris. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.