With new AI tools advancing by the day, a new trend of lifting faces from Instagram models, and replacing them with generative substitutes is gaining more and more traction.
With millions of followers, tens of millions of views, and huge potential revenue for this relatively simple technique, the platforms "human" component is rapidly being overwhelmed and replaced.
As a result of Instagrams own content serving algorithm, the problem may even be exacerbated by rewarding these bad actors with immediate and substantial traction.
While Instagram may be the first hard target, all of social media will quickly be vulnerable to similar techniques and practices.