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Influencers IA: el auge de los humanos digitales y la imagen algorítmica en Instagram

Digital Media

Understanding how algorithmically generated images flood social feeds matters for anyone trying to identify trustworthy plant identification accounts, gardening advice, or nature photography online.

Researchers looked at how artificial intelligence is being used to create fake but realistic-looking human influencers on Instagram. These digital personas use specific visual tricks to seem relatable and get people to interact with their posts. The study raises questions about how we tell real from fake in an era where even nature and garden content could be produced by algorithms.

Key Findings

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Virtual influencers (AI-generated digital humans) are emerging as strategic actors in a new digital economy on platforms like Instagram

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These AI personas employ specific visual and narrative tactics to maximize audience engagement while working around current technological limitations

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The rise of hybrid AI-generated imagery is consolidating a 'post-photographic' era where the boundary between reality and representation is increasingly blurred

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This article examines how AI-generated 'virtual influencers' are reshaping digital communication on Instagram, analyzing the visual and narrative tactics these algorithmic personas use to drive engagement in a post-photographic media landscape.

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Se aborda el impacto disruptivo de la Inteligencia Artificial Generativa en la comunicación digital, destacando la transformación de la imagen en un producto algorítmico cuya creación, circulación ...

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