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# Why AI Avatars Pretending to Be Human Crosses a Line
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/why-ai-avatars-pretending-to-be-human-crosses-a-line/
- Published: 2026-10-31T16:14:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-31T16:14:52.000Z
- Description: Tavos’s Griffin—marketed as a “human interaction model”—simulates human presence in customer service, support, and decision-making contexts. This creates concrete harms: users cannot reliably know who or what they’re interacting with, undermining informed consent.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-ai, synthetic humans, ai ethics, ai capabilities

Source: [Nautilus](https://nautil.us/creating-fake-people-is-a-terrible-idea-1285598?ref=adjacent.media)

Tavos's Griffin—marketed as a "human interaction model"—simulates human presence in customer service, support, and decision-making contexts. This creates concrete harms: users cannot reliably know who or what they're interacting with, undermining informed consent. Companies can externalize labor costs while obscuring algorithmic decision-making as human judgment. The risk is not sentience or sci-fi deception. It's that synthetic humans become a standard business tool to reduce accountability and transparency in interactions where users expect to deal with actual humans.