AI-generated woman posing as grieving widow promotes app to millions of unsuspecting viewers
omooretweets · x · 2026-10-19
A TikTok account uses an AI-generated woman to promote a grief support app, with every video framed as "her own experience" of losing her fiancé — and the app pitch only appearing on the last slide.
The videos pull millions of views (up to 2.3M per post), and commenters pour out heartfelt condolences with no sign of detecting the AI. A striking case of AI virtual influencers exploiting emotional content for influencer marketing, and how invisible the tells currently are.
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