00:00Okay, your favorite new influencer might actually be a crypto ad.
00:03So this is Gene Phil, brown suit, blonde bob, curly little mustache, just shadowboxing around
00:07Paris. And people are obsessed. He blew up to hundreds of thousands of followers in a matter
00:12of days, and one clip reportedly pulled in almost 40 million views. But here's the thing,
00:17he's not French, he's not a boxer, and he's not even real. There are new AI tools now where you
00:23take a real video and just drop a brand new AI character into the exact same movement.
00:26Something's oddly familiar about this. But Gene Phil wasn't just made for fun.
00:32When people checked his bio, it linked to a meme coin called Gene Phil. The site calls itself his
00:36official home and says, quote, it's a token he launched himself, which he can't launch anything,
00:41he's not even real. But as of today, that coin has a market cap of about $5.7 million,
00:46with only around $367,000 actually in the pool. So most of that value only exists on paper,
00:52meaning somebody behind the screen is using a fake influencer to sell you a coin. This may be
00:57the reason why critics are calling the whole project a pump and dump. And you guys did not
01:01hold back in our comments. Some of you want AI accounts banned altogether. Others are calling
01:06it a boring future with no humans. But here's the real problem. People can't stop watching these
01:11accounts. So should Instagram ban them? Or is that on the viewer to stop watching? Drop your hot take
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