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Fortune
Jenn Brice

e.l.f.'s chief digital officer says the beauty brand's custom AI model writes social media captions

From left to right: Astha Malik of Braze, Amy Brooks of the NBA, Ekta Chopra of e.l.f., and Irana Wasti of BILL. All sit on stage during a conference panel (Credit: Stuart Isett/Fortune)

A generative-AI-powered social media bot is churning out content with 90% accuracy at e.l.f. Beauty, but the company is still using humans to make sure posts sound true to the brand.

After nine months of training on social media data, the model, nicknamed “elf-luencer,” is now “talking like e.l.f.” around 90% of the time, according to the cosmetics company's chief digital officer Ekta Chopra. It uses emojis and the brand’s “elf-isms” like “elf-mazing” and “elf-ing awesome.”

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