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Eric Hal Schwartz

You don't have to be real to score brand deals as an influencer

@millasofiafin / Instagram.

Milla Sofia lives in Helsinki, spends weekends on luxury yachts, and recently signed a fashion deal with a Finnish phone accessories store. She also doesn’t exist, not in the real world. She's an AI-generated influencer, a pure creation of software with good lighting, designed to help sell products and generate money for her developer.

The synthetic influencer has a well-curated Instagram page full of styled outfit shots, beach pics, and confident captions that sound exactly like the templates companies issue to influencer partners explaining what to write for their sponsored posts. The AI brand ambassador claims to be “always on the grind” after studying at the “University of Life,” and majoring in “self-adaptive learning and data-driven mastery.” Of course she did. The digital model has nearly 324,000 Instagram followers and thousands more on X.

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