AI is Here: How I Convinced Millions of People with an AI Influencer
I live with my two younger brothers in a rental apartment in Copenhagen. They're both in high school, and I'd been telling them for weeks that they should try making AI influencers. I had seen other accounts doing it, and what almost pissed me off was that I couldn't find a single comment on these accounts calling them out as AI. To me, it was so obvious. But no one seemed to notice. Or at least, that's what I thought at the time. More on that later.
It was during their Christmas break. The toy industry basically shuts down after the holiday rush, so I had some time to breathe. A few weeks had passed and my brothers still hadn't tried the AI influencer thing, so I said fuck it. Let me do this myself and be the older brother that leads by example.
Building the Perfect Persona
I opened ChatGPT and told it I wanted to create an attractive New York City influencer in her early twenties. Her looks should be based on actual data of what men and women find attractive. Not my opinion. Data.
It landed on a blonde woman with sharp yet soft facial features. She drinks matcha. She goes to nice dinners. No one really knows where her money comes from, either family or rich men in the city. I spent about an hour just talking to ChatGPT, crafting the perfect persona, always grounding it in real studies and internet data. That's the key to something like this. You're not guessing what's attractive. You're engineering it.
Her name was Chloe Davis. You can still find her on TikTok at @chloe.dvss (press here).
The Glow-Up Concept
Once Chloe was fully designed, I told ChatGPT to copy that persona but make her a teenager in college. Make her ugly. Bad acne. Bloating. Slightly overweight. Greasy hair. Just overall not clean or healthy looking.
Now I had two versions of the same person: the "before" and the "after."
I purchased a subscription to Higgsfield, which is an AI image and video generation platform. I asked ChatGPT to generate prompts for their Nano Banana Pro model with 9:16 aspect ratio and 4K resolution. First prompt: the teenager sitting on a bed eating McDonald's, looking kind of sad.
Higgsfield produced an image that was indistinguishable from reality. A girl sitting in her dorm room, eating McDonald's on her bed.
Then I did something important. I opened Snapchat on my phone and added the text "brayden just broke up with her" in that classic Snapchat text bar style.
Instant Credibility
Here's the trick. When you add real-world elements to an AI image, things like the McDonald's logo or the signature Snapchat text bar, it gives what I call "instant credibility." Your brain sees familiar things and stops questioning the rest.
This picture fooled a lot of my friends. They didn't believe it was AI.
Next, I generated the "after" version. Same girl, but four years later. Now extremely beautiful. Fierce. Bigger eyes. Clean looking. Thinner. More toned. Sitting in an upscale NYC restaurant with a dry martini at her lips, looking dead straight into the camera with a seducing look.
For this one, I added a Prada handbag on the table. That was the "social proof" that made the whole thing feel real. Rich girl. Glow-up complete. Aspirational but believable.
Going Viral
That first before-and-after post got half a million likes in a few days.
I kept posting. More content, more angles, more lifestyle shots. The likes kept stacking up. After about a week and a half, Chloe Davis had 3.5 million likes and 20,000 followers.
As soon as I hit 1,000 followers, I made an eBook in Canva using a template I bought on Etsy. It was a guide on how to become pretty and "get your spark back." The conversion wasn't amazing, but it made me $1,000 in the first week.
The Comment Filter Trick
Remember how I said I couldn't find any comments calling out other AI influencer accounts? That almost pissed me off because it seemed so obvious to me.
Turns out, TikTok has a feature that lets creators filter out specific keywords from their comments. So I filtered out "AI," "aye eye," "ay ey," "IA," and probably around 50 different weird ways people might type it. No wonder I wasn't seeing any AI accusations on other accounts. Those comments existed. They just never made it through the filter.
Leading by Example
The whole point of this was to show my brothers what's possible with nothing but a phone or a laptop. A thousand dollars in a week isn't life-changing money for me at this point, but for them, I could see they were amazed.
Both of them started running accounts like mine after watching me do it. One succeeded. One gave up and failed. That's usually how it goes.
Had I been 16 or 17 years old, this would've been a serious amount of money. For my brothers, it was a real lesson: there's money everywhere if you're paying attention and willing to try things.
And hey, I don't mind a quick lil' thou' 🤑