Yet, the latest addition to this lineup is a departure from the norm. Undoubtedly stunning, boasting a flawlessly proportioned face and body, there's a unique twist – she's not a real person. Social media is currently flooded with AI-generated models, and one named Emily Pellegrini stands at the forefront as the reigning queen of digital modeling.
From Oddity Central:
A couple of months ago, we featured Aitana Lopez, aka Fit Aitana, a Spanish model who had amassed a following of around 110,000 people on Instagram in four months despite only existing in the digital world. She was the creation of a communication agency, but she looked just like a real person. It turns out that she was only one of many hyperrealistic digital avatars taking social media by storm and making their creators fortunes in advertising, sponsorships and paid personalized content. Emily Pellegrini, a digital model based on the guidelines of ChatGPT, has been getting a lot of attention in the media recently, sparking controversy in the process.
“I asked Chat GPT what’s the average man’s dream girl and it said brown hair long and long legs, so I made her exactly how it said,” Emily Pellegrini’s anonymous creator said. “The goal was to make her likable and attractive. I wanted to keep her as real as possible.”
Thanks to her attractive looks, Emily constantly gets compliments on Instagram and messages from men offering to take her to Dubai or take her out on expensive dinners. The person behind the Emily Pellegrini persona chats them up to make the illusion believable, but they refuse to reveal their identity.
To say this entire phenomenon of digital models is creepy would be a vast understatement. It's bizarre that not only can a computer-generated image captivate us so easily, but it's also duping millions into some bizarre fantasy.
