The Uncanny Valley of Digital Doppelgängers The advent of AI powered avatar tools has brought us closer to blurring the lines between reality and digital recreation.
Google's Gemini app takes this technology further by allowing users to generate videos featuring their own likeness. I recently tried out this feature, and the experience was both fascinating and unsettling.
Setting up my avatar through the Gemini app involved a straightforward process: sitting in front of a well lit camera, pointing my phone's lens at my face, and reading a string of numbers.