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Is she real, or am AI fooled?

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March 08, 2025

These 10 AI-generated humans seem so real, it's uncanny. They have jobs, holidays, even IRL besties

- Andrea Cutinho

Is she real, or am AI fooled?

1 Naina (@Naina_Avtr). Naina is cute, wholesome, multilingual, and not averse to talking about dandruff, chai and rajma chawal. But her strength is that she never outshines her human collaborators. There were rumours that she'd join Bigg Boss 18. She didn't. Still, she has 426K followers.

image2 Zara Shatavari (@ZaraShatavari). India's first AI-generated brand ambassador looks, at first, like a teenage boy's fantasy. She has impossible proportions, likes skimpy clothes and poses like a '90s model. But sandwiched between the virtual appearances for Netflix and style tips are posts about PCOS and depression. Zara knows that chai is bad on an empty stomach, and before bed. We wish she styled herself better and spoke her mind more.

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