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this is Olivia Brand, who over the course of the last several months has amalgamated almost 125,000 Instagram followers and whose videos are all getting millions of views at a time. She's a fashion girl, she's a lifestyle influencer, she's rooted in her Christian faith, and she's labeled herself as the AI it girl because get this, this is not a real person and also a quarter she's not real. She's completely generated by AI which is terrifying. But what's scarier is we can't seem to tell the difference between a real human being and someone whose identity is amalgamated through a computer algorithm. Olivia's posts look hyper realistic with little under eye patches and facials to get ready for bed every night. Her hair is messy and there's little flyaways everywhere. She's got texture on her skin in all of her photos and videos, nothing about her page screams AI to me. Except absolutely beautiful woman to like unrealistic beauty standards. And even though Olivia says in her Instagram bio that she's the AI it girl and it's been confirmed by several media outlets that she is indeed an AI generated influencer, people are commenting by the thousands on her Instagram reels. Omg Almost thought this was AI So we've officially arrived. We arrived at the time everyone was freaking out about related to our inability to determine Reality from fantasy, from real people versus what's entirely generated from a computer screen. And the videos of this girl appearing as a guest on podcasts are probably the most convincing part possible with messages that are super empowering to women. How not to let a man drag you down. Go girl. Attitude and energy. But are basically just so intentionally vague that it applies to anyone watching. So there's no real substance to these deep, meaningful messages that she's delivering to her audience. And I mean, no one works harder than a woman who realizes no one is coming to save her and that she's the one who has to build her own dream with God by her side. With God by her side. Interesting. So I did another little deep dive. Olivia has massive numbers of Instagram highlights for her stories, one of which is called Faith. And if you pull it up, there are two slides highlighted here from her previous Instagram stories nine weeks ago. First is a picture of her sitting in her bed reading the Bible, wearing little angel PJ sets that says, before I start my day, I like to tap into the word of God. And the second slide is from when she hit 25,000 followers on Instagram. And it's this long generic message giving glory to God for all of the people who are following her account. I'm not lucky. I'm beyond blessed. To God be the glory. Thank you, God. I also thank you for 25,000 followers. I'm blown away. I'm honestly emotional writing this. I'm emotional writing this. As an AI bot, I'm filled with a large number of powerful emotions. So grateful, so humbled, and so blessed beyond words. It's only the beginning and I have so much beautiful content coming for you all. You all saw something in me and I'm about to deliver in 2026. Love you babes, and welcome. And then quotes two Bible verses at the bottom from the book of Ephesians and from the book of Matthew. Don't love that. Don't love that. Don't like that. There can only be negative consequences to dumbing down Christianity through an AI influencer versus evangelization opportunities to teach people about Jesus. Not feeling good about that one. And the more I have gone down the rabbit hole about all of these things, the more I am realizing that Olivia Brand is just one of many and that basically it's impossible for us to distinguish who is actually a real person and who is AI. Who knows? I be AI talking to you right now through this video. I don't know. But just as we see Olivia Brand applying all of her makeup with perfectly realistic skin texture, eyelashes, flyaway hairs. I'm now finding other AI generated influencers that at first blush don't even seem AI necessarily, but are getting freakier and freakier in their realisticness by the day. Some you still can kind of spot, although they're getting millions of followers anyway. Like Lil mikayla, who has 2.3 million million followers on Instagram, who kind of obviously is AI. I mean, if you actually look at her pictures, you're thinking, okay, you look like a cartoon character, like someone Asianified, the girl from the Polar Express. And she posts pictures of herself wearing weird cartoonish outfits, hanging out with celebrities and attending stuff at the Olympics that obviously look cartoonish and AI generated. But then you start looking at people like Aitana, who calls herself a virtual soul in her Instagram bio, has 393,000 followers on Instagram and again, whose videos and posts are getting millions of views, millions upon millions for not being real. But I am telling you right now that Motherf ker back there is not real. Itana has dyed her hair pink in the last few months, so you might have seen some of her videos before her. It's videos I don't even know before when she had dark brown hair. Now she has pink hair. And some of these pictures look so hyper realistic. I can't quite wrap my head around how this isn't a real human being. Whether that's her at a concert while on vacation in Brazil, her working out in the gym and taking mirror workout selfies in the mirror at the gym. Hang life lately, after all my travels, who traveled nowhere, she's not a real person. Or even doing like Day in the Life or About Me videos, introducing herself to her audience. Not a real person, a real cat either, probably. Is no one concerned about our ability to determine whether this is real or not? Oh, I'm just now putting together her name. I Tana. A I Tana. Oh, I get it. Making more sense to me now. There you go. My lack of critical thinking on the subject and some of the creepier comments on her videos are really starting to get to me. Like this one from Maven. Replacing myself with AI was the best decision ever. No, immediately no. Immediately no.