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Let me start this by stating that I really respect Kelli. She is from a background without the advantages of many of the other contestants this year. In spite of that, she shows great respect and sense of responsibility to her non-standard family. Add to that the fact that she has a wonderful God-given talent, singing, and she is using that as a path to better herself.
I'm uncomfortable with the "Beverly Hillbillies" aspect of the way her involvement in AI is going. Kelli is in an environment she most probably had no personal contact with before this experience. She should be getting some cultural coaching and a business manager and a lawyer, so she has the skills necessary to handle fame.
I do think it's up to AI to provide some of this. At the present time, it seems that AI is using Kelli's naivete to create interest and boost ratings, and that would be exploitation.
I posted this on an official AI chat Forum. Think it will last?
You are assuming that everything that has been prtrayed about her "disadvantaged background" is exactly accurate and that she is completely unaware that she is being "exploited" by AI.....
Probably not!
Hey Drudge has picked up the Queen/Brian May story. Slimon's shenanigans are coming back to bite him on the arse it seems.