'Hot girl' influencers using AI animals to farm more clicks | New York Post

Generative AI has been a fixture in recent social media trends, from the viral Studio Ghibli makeovers to turning people into their pets. Now, clout-seeking “hot girl” influencers are going viral after using Google AI to add cute animals to their photos like something out of a live-action Disney movie.
This fairy tale-esque phenomenon came to light via a post by X user @jameygammon, who posted a pic of several content creators posting with AI-generated creatures from rabbits to puppies and even a giant horse.
“Hot girls have started using AI trend I’m seeing; photo-surrealism with cute animals,” she declared in the caption to the clip, which has 15 million views online.
In fact, the internet has been flooded with would-be Cinderellas posing with their machine-made menageries. One trend-hopper named Anna Wein, a Germany-based beauty and fashion influencer with 800,000 followers, posted a photo of herself surrounded by “101” digitally-engineered Dalmatians.
Some have even posted tutorials of this virtual animal whisperer trend, which can be accomplished through a variety of online AI tools with the Google Gemini creator or the free-to-use aistudio.google.com ranking among the most popular.
