They think she looks too good to be true.
Hyperrealistic artificial intelligence fakes have turn out to be so prevalent online that “attractive” people at the moment are being mistaken for AI.
An Italian model claimed that she’s often accused of being a bot amid the proliferation of AI, which is understood for generating flawless representations of individuals online.
“It’s extremely frustrating that individuals think I’m an AI model,” Ines Trocchia, 29, told Jam Press of the unlucky phenomenon. “It’s complete insanity to me.”
The Naples-based influencer, who’s collaborated with high-end fashion brands from Philip Plein to Dolce & Gabbana, continuously uploads immaculate-looking glamor shots of herself for her greater than 1.6 million followers on Instagram.
Trocchia says she’s spent years in front of the camera perfecting her craft and likes to point out off the fruits of her labor.
Unfortunately, as a result of the proliferation of AI-generated supermodels online, many individuals wonder if she’s a real artifact — or just one other too-hot bot.
“It’s shocking to me that some people query if I’m real,” lamented Trocchia. “I don’t think my profile looks like that of a bot.”
The bombshell added, “You possibly can all the time tell when an AI model has been used because they’ve the identical sad expression in each photo and video.”
Her case perhaps presents one among the pitfalls of being — to borrow the words of Ben Stiller in “Zoolander” — “really, really, really ridiculously good-looking” within the AI age.
Trocchia finds her predicament especially frustrating as she’s “got highlight reels that show me on a catwalk and things like that.”
This technological fallout entails greater than only a case of mistaken AI-dentity: Troccia claims that online catfishers often hijack her likeness to generate views on social media.
“I’ve noticed bot accounts are even stealing my body and putting artificial faces on it,” she lamented. “One among my videos was outright stolen by a bot account and got more views on there than it did alone profile.”
She’s not alone with the difficulty, either.
“I spoke with a few of my colleagues and friends within the industry and so they have the identical problem,” the proud natural beauty added.
Trocchia claims that by blurring the road between the true and virtual worlds, AI contributes to already stratospheric beauty standards, which she finds bad for each the modeling industry and society overall.
“A number of the AI accounts that I even have seen are completely not possible standards,” she explained. “The models are inclined to be super baby-faced with breasts and features that aren’t in proportion to their bodies.”
Troccia argued — perhaps somewhat paradoxically, given her vocation — that it’s “crazy” to strive for an “unbelievable level of perfection.”
In other words, beauty is within the AI of the beholder.
And while the model acknowledges that the tech has its place — she admits to using the tool to edit photographs — creating superhumanly hot AI robots is a bridge too far in her view.
“It’s completely different once you’re using it to create a one who doesn’t exist,” Trocchia declared.
Unfortunately, cases like Trocchia’s could turn out to be commonplace because the omnipresent tech becomes increasingly adept at engineering digital representations of everyone from online boyfriends to politicians.
Despite proliferating virtually, these fabrications can have serious ramifications in the true world.
In May 2023, an AI-generated photo of a fake explosion on the Pentagon spread on social media – prompting mass confusion amongst users and a temporary selloff within the U.S. stock market.
