{"id":943892,"date":"2025-07-05T06:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943892"},"modified":"2025-07-05T06:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:22:56","slug":"from-gandhi-going-viral-to-cleopatra-selling-shampoo-the-rise-of-ai-influencers-and-what-it-means-for-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/05\/from-gandhi-going-viral-to-cleopatra-selling-shampoo-the-rise-of-ai-influencers-and-what-it-means-for-brands\/","title":{"rendered":"From Gandhi going viral to Cleopatra selling shampoo: The rise of AI influencers and what it means for brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahatma Gandhi holding a salt pack and saying, \u2018why march?\u2019 or an ancient Chola king reacting to modern breakfast to Gen Z slang. Artificial intelligence (AI)-generated historical figures are going viral across social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok. While brands are watching closely, few are ready to jump in, while others dismiss \u2018deadfluencers\u2019 as nothing more than a viral gimmick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahatma Gandhi holding a salt pack and saying, \u2018why march?\u2019 or an ancient Chola king reacting to modern breakfast to Gen Z slang. Artificial intelligence (AI)-generated historical figures are going viral across social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok. While brands are watching closely, few are ready to jump in, while others dismiss \u2018deadfluencers\u2019 as nothing more than a viral gimmick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}