Expert reveals AI red flags to look for as truth is revealed about 'world’s most beautiful' influencer

An expert has shared some common tells of AI after an AI-generated 'model' racked up millions of views on social media.

Generative AI has improved to a terrifying degree over the past few months, with earlier issues around hands and fingers being out of joint now seemingly patched up.

Videos like the rabbits and a bear on a trampoline, which deliberately emulate the grainy quality of CCTV footage to bypass AI problems, convinced many people that they were real, when they were entirely fabricated.

As if that wasn't enough, the Grok AI on X was the subject of outrage after users requested that it digitally undress women and children.

One TikTok account which has convinced millions of people is that of 'model' Nia Noir, which has some 2.7 million followers at the time of writing, and one video with an insane 198.7 million views.

But the problem is that Nia Noir is AI-generated.

Accounts have drawn attention to the fact that the dances in her videos exactly match those which were posted by real creators, and even the outfit she is wearing sometimes.

If you look at the background of the videos as well, this is often entirely stationary, even in clips where she is supposedly outdoors, and on closer inspection doesn't seem to quite match her.

Konstantin Levinzon, co-founder of Planet VPN, a free virtual private network (VPN) provider, has shared some of the giveaway signs that could mean something is AI-generated.

"AI often struggles with limbs and joints; another red flag of AI-generated images and video is often a person’s skin," he said.

"In real photos, it is usually possible to spot micro-details, even with heavy makeup or editing.

"The image also looks sculpted rather than photographed: facial symmetry isn’t perfect, especially around the eyes, and the eyes have a glassy, artificial glow."

Finally, he drew attention to the issues with backgrounds as well, saying: "In AI-generated images, there is often a background-and-subject mismatch.

"In Nia’s image, the background looks like a flat, low-detail texture, while the person is hyper-polished."

Generative AI technology uses databases of information, which it scrapes for data before spitting out an image.

It's not clear whether Nia is based on a specific individual or the result of AI digitally frankensteining images of different women together, as well as who is actually running the account.

But while there are telltale signs there to give away that it is AI, for literally millions of viewers on social media, it was convincing enough.