Synthetic Influencers and an AI That Answers Your Email

What happens when AI stops just replacing human work and starts creating fake humans to do the work? That's the question I keep coming back to, and today I want to dig into what feels like a glimpse of a very strange future—AI moving beyond automation into pure fabrication, creating entire fake ecosystems to distribute content. And honestly, I can't look away.

🎯 Agents Base Phone Agents

An AI system that takes your product photos, generates authentic-looking user-generated content (UGC), and then distributes it through a network of thousands of AI agents running on real phones.

Why I'm excited: This is the first thing I've seen that's so audaciously weird I can't ignore it. It's not just generating content; it's creating a fake network of phone-based 'people' to distribute it. It's a glimpse into a very strange future of advertising.

Who should care: Marketers and e-commerce brands who are tired of paying a fortune for influencers and want to try something completely out there. If you want scalable, almost-too-real-looking content, this is it.

Reality check: The 'synthetic influencer' angle is one step away from being incredibly creepy. There's a fine line between authentic-looking content and straight-up deception. This could backfire if not handled carefully.

Check out Agents Base Phone Agents →

Other finds worth mentioning

Here are a few tools that aren't trying to change the world, just save you from the tedious parts of your day.

Yapify

For anyone who lives in their inbox. It lets you answer emails by talking instead of typing. Actually useful for clearing out the backlog while doing other things. Worth a look if you hate typing.

Notebook AI

This wants to be your brain's personal assistant. You throw PDFs, audio files, or YouTube links at it, and it spits out summaries and notes. If your 'second brain' is a total mess, this could help organize it.

Grok CLI (Unofficial)

For the coders. It puts a smart AI in your terminal so you can stop Googling command line syntax. Instead of remembering how to zip a folder, you just ask it. A real time-saver.

Quick hits

YouWare: Code from 'vibes.' It's another AI that writes web apps from plain English, but this one has a community built in. Could be fun for quick prototypes.

Prompthance: Turns a picture into a detailed prompt for an AI image generator. A bit meta, but useful for AI artists.

Convo: Gives your AI app long-term memory. Super niche, but solves a huge pain for developers building chatbots that are constantly forgetful.

Polyglotta: A free, open-source AI translator you can run yourself. Solid utility, especially if you want to avoid the big tech ecosystem.

My takeaway

AI isn't just about automation, it's abstraction. We're moving away from needing to know the 'how'—the specific command, the lines of code, or the perfect prompt structure. The tools are getting good enough to let us just state our intent. The work is no longer the craft of doing, but the clarity of asking.

Catch you tomorrow.

What's one skill you have that you'd be happy to let an AI abstract away for you? Shoot me a reply.