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Roses are red/ violets are blue/ these girls are AI/ would they fool you, too?
A top MAGA influencer has been exposed as nothing more than an algorithm run by a guy in India — but she’s just one bombshell bot flooding social media with racy fake pics.
Men — mostly older — are falling for them left, right and center — and experts warn that it’s a warning sign of a “pandemic of loneliness,” and a “societal loss of humanity.”
Emily Hart, the blonde MAGA model who racked up millions of followers with her patriotic-themed and often scantil clad pictures, put the man who created her through med school, according to Wired.
But, Sam isn’t the only one cashing in on the trick, as the same audience is even taking the bait from influencers that are clearly labeled as AI, The Post can reveal.
Among the pulseless heartthrobs is Ana Zelu, a brunette stunner whose Instagram feed showcases a dream-like, jet-set lifestyle: sitting court-side at the US and Australian Open, sipping coffee in a European palazzo and striking a pose on the Brooklyn Bridge — all while sporting designer clothes and a flawless blowout.
The phony Zelu has amassed over 300,000 followers on the platform, even as her bio admits: “ai-influencer.”
And still, hordes of admirers consistently flood her posts with gushing praise.
“Outfit check / Which one is your fav?” reads one of Zelu’s captions, paired with images of the bot lounging on the steps of the Met Museum, browsing vinyl records on a sidewalk and posing at a farmer’s market.
“Number one is my favourite…May God bless you for your inner beauty!” one male user commented on the post, adding prayer hands, a cross and heart emojis.
“All outfits have passed the quality and ‘WOW’ test and my favourite is the 1st one, only enhanced by your smile, of course,” another wrote.
“You are genuinely in a class of your own,” a third admirer gushed, followed by flame emojis.
Like Zelu, Milla Sofia is just another comely creation — complete with perfect pearly whites, a stunning figure and even a gorgeous singing voice — though none of it is real.
The AI-coded influencer has racked up nearly 600,000 followers on Instagram, where fake videos of her lip-syncing songs in skin-tight getups are enough to send desperate men swooning.
“Milla , beautiful and wonderful and stunning woman…..my sweet love,” reads one typical comment on a video that drew hundreds of thousands of views.
“Listening to the music of this woman I love, who sings like an angel,” another man wrote.
“I love you,” one simply declared, along with three rose emojis.
Despite Sofia’s bio identifying her as a “virtual pop singer,” her fawning fans are still “having a real experience emotionally” while consuming the coded content, according to Manhattan psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert.
“It’s clear that people don’t actually need something to be real in order to feel connected to it. They just need it to feel responsive,” Alpert told The Post.
“If an account is engaging, consistent, and seems to ‘get’ them, the brain starts to treat that interaction as meaningful.”
The glamorous robots’ popularity is fueled by what forensic psychologist Carole Lieberman calls “a pandemic of loneliness.”
“Even when we know or suspect that a social media user’s persona and content is all AI-generated, we engage with them because it seems better than nothing,” she explained. “Sometimes we go into denial and convince ourselves that it is — or could be — a real person.”
The mind-boggling trend marks a “very sad state of affairs” and “a societal loss of humanity,” Lieberman lamented.
While some influencers disclose that they’re algorithm-made, “the vast majority” do not, according to Dr. Hany Farid, a leading AI expert and co-founder of GetReal Security, a company focused on combating digital deception.
“We absolutely see some accounts disclosing [that they’re AI-generated], but I’m confident that the vast majority of content is not,” Farid told The Post.
With AI-generated content becoming increasingly difficult to detect — combined with mindless social media scrolling — users are highly “vulnerable to being deceived” by their favorite creators, he warned.
“Images, voices and video have moved through the uncanny valley. The average person simply cannot reliably tell the difference between a real person and an AI-generated person,” Farid said.
Earlier this year, separate MAGA influencer Jessica Foster — whose photos of her posing alongside President Trump and wearing a US military uniform drew millions of views — was exposed as an AI robot.
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