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Harvard's $699 Bootcamp Deploys AI Avatars of Instructors

Harvard Innovation Labs is offering a $699 startup bootcamp featuring AI avatars of its human instructors, marking a notable step in synthetic media entering mainstream education and raising questions about authenticity and scale.

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Synthesia Expands AI Avatars Into Live Coaching

Synthesia, the AI avatar video platform, is moving beyond pre-rendered training videos into interactive live coaching powered by conversational AI avatars, marking a major shift for synthetic media in enterprise learning.

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AI Avatars Impersonate Black Creators to Push Shein Goods

Grifters are deploying AI-generated Black personas on TikTok Shop to sell cheap Shein dropshipped products, raising fresh concerns about synthetic media, digital blackface, and platform authenticity enforcement.

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Chinese Tech Workers Train—and Resist—Their AI Doubles

Chinese tech employees are being asked to train AI clones of themselves for livestreaming, customer service, and content creation—and some are starting to push back against the synthetic doubles replacing them.