Father Lopez is an influential person who earns up to $11,000 a month.
She regularly travels between New York City and her home in Catalonia, Spain, promoting beauty brands, Black Friday, her favorite songs, and posting a variety of thirst traps.
Just don't expect to meet her in the airport's first class lounge.
That's because despite her detailed backstory and natal chart, which shows the sky at the time of her birth, the 27-year-old beauty is a creation of artificial intelligence.
She belongs to a new generation of digitally created avatars who have won the battle for public attention, joined by chart-toppers Solomon Ray and Breaking Rust, and blonde bombshell Mia Zelu, who stole the show at the Wimbledon tennis tournament – even though she wasn't physically there.
“We used to run campaigns [with humans]- said Andrea Garcia, creative director of the AI agency. Ignorantwho created Aitana.
“This is different. [With humans] you have limits on time and how often you can redo the photo. There is no room for error. With AI, we can make changes very easily.”
After all, AI creations never have bad hair, never miss a beat while recording, are always on time, never complain, and never get into the kind of messy rows that humans are prone to.
Aitana has directed promotional videos for Amazon, and major global brands such as Calvin Klein, Prada, Samsung and YouTube have used AI influencers.
Garcia notes that her agency invested significant time and capital in Aitana, who was “born” through a proprietary program they developed.
“We enter all kinds of information about her,” she told The Post. “We talked in detail about her childhood, what she likes to do in her free time, her favorite movies, her enemies when she was little.
“Her favorite food is pizza, and her first concert was with an orchestra. Her father loves classical music.”
It also takes time, skill and intelligence, both artificial and human, to create the photographs and digital videos that appear in Aitana's stream, where she looks almost real enough to be a flesh-and-blood human.
Sometime in December, Aitana is expected to be able to host five-minute conversations with fans, who will, of course, have to pay to chat with her through a platform called Fanvue.
Garcia protects Aitana just as much as he influences her in real life. “She feels like a friend, but even more like a daughter,” she added.
Agencies that force these digital personalities to claim that their creations are no different from the cartoon characters or superheroes that have been prevalent in society for decades without anyone questioning them, so what's the big deal?
In the music industry, AI artists are gaining popularity, whether most listeners are aware of their reality or not.
AI created a Christian recording artist Solomon Ray Tops Billboard Gospel Charts with the song “Find your rest.” He's cleverly dubbed the “Mississippi soul singer” and has over 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, where he's even labeled as a blue “verified artist.”
Forrest Frank, who had his own number one Christian hit, noted on social media that “AI doesn't have the Holy Spirit within it. So I think it's really weird to open your spirit to something that doesn't have a spirit.” The silver lining for Ray was that at least the comment didn't hurt him emotionally.
In the same way, the AI generated the singer Breaking Rust climbed the county and western charts.causing outrage – especially for invading a genre that prides itself on its authenticity.
Singer Breland called the rise “an absolutely bad sign for the future of music… [and] This is a problem for everyone in the music industry.”
However, fans vote with their ears and don't seem to be too concerned.
Other projects are beginning to further blur the boundaries between reality and the artificial world.
Miabereds m m has generated a lot of press for her striking photo on Wimbledon center court, which apparently fooled the cricket star and her horde of 218,000 followers. All of her photos are very realistic, and the only obvious sign that she is not real is her description as a “digital storyteller and AI influencer.”
She even posts misspelled comments about how she's feeling, like a photo of a rainy night with the caption, “There's something about rainy nights here that feel so familiar. Aaah, yeah, I have a jar.”
One of the most popular AI influencers, Lil Miquela, received major backlash when she published a message that he was diagnosed with leukemia. It may have been orchestrated, at least in part, in an attempt to humanize her, but it infuriated people of good faith.
A typical response was, “That's so rude, especially for people who are actually fighting cancer.”
This post was sponsored by a bone marrow donation organization called NMDP.
In response to People magazine, NMDP Senior Vice President of Strategy and Innovation Erica Jensen attempted to justify the project.
She wrote: “By presenting a fictional and scientifically accurate diagnosis on social media, NMDP has reached younger generations while protecting real patients from additional emotional or physical stress.”
However, unlike people with life-threatening conditions, Lil Miquela will be fine.
Hollywood has played a key role in the development of AI-generated character technology through its innovations in digital animation and computer-generated imagery (CGI).
However, the appearance of one computer-generated personality, Tilly Norwood, who for some reason was given a more British name than is possible in the real world, also attracted significant criticism.
Partly because she was introduced at the Zurich Film Festival by her creator Elin Van der Velden, who called her “the new Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman.”
Actors and unions immediately spoke out against the “scary” character and deplored how she was “stealing human connections”.
Van der Velden defended herself, writing online: “Creating Tilly was for me an act of imagination and craftsmanship, not unlike drawing a character, writing a role or shaping a performance.”
Tilly's online account now has a number of disclaimers making it clear that she is an artificial intelligence project.
Madeline Salazar, a human content creator who discusses artificial intelligence and posts as ImMadSalconsiders all this an exaggeration.
“I think it’s an unrealistic threat to have an artificially intelligent actress star in a movie with human stars,” she told The Post. “They can replace supporting actors, but I see AI as a kind of animation. Humans were too dramatic.”
Salazar is one of the first to try to talk to Aitana. At the same time, she asked whether people should worry.
“We are not competitors, we are a dream team,” Aitana replied.
However, she added ominously, “But I will say this: If you block me, I might go into revenge mode,” indicating a tinge of envy that is too humanistic for many.
