An account claiming to belong to a pair of 'conjoined twins' from Miami posting bikini pictures on their feed has gone viral... and all definitely isn't as it seems.
Twins Valeria and Camila pretty much shot to fame overnight due to them seemingly sharing a single body with two heads positioned side by side.
Since December, the page has accumulated over 280,000 followers on Instagram for portraying the two sisters as having a condition known as dicephalic parapagus - a rare form of conjoined twinning where two heads share a single torso.
Some of their captions include 'soaking sun and looks', 'out in the city' and 'who’s taking our bill?'
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As well as endless bikini shots, their posts consist of fashion pictures, low necklines and short skirts.
The pair claim to be 25 years old and from Florida and admitted that they wouldn’t have their life ‘any other way’.
“We move, we talk, we’re obviously not AI,” they said during a Q&A.
AI experts, however, aren't quite buying it.
Digital forensics specialist Jake Green told Jesse Weber Live for News Nation that the 'minutiae within the face' pretty much gives it away.
“We look for freckles. We look for eyelashes, teeth, earrings, hair subtly changing. We look for all of those tiny little pieces,” he said.
“Then we look for really some of the easiest ones that we can spot… shadows and reflections.”
Concluding that the twins aren't real, Green reckons that 'it’s about the money'.
“So I think that’s really at the end of the day… it’s about… the financial gain of the person who’s in control, whether it’s a real person or it’s some IT guy sitting in the closet.”
AI prompt engineer Andrew Hulbert also suggested to the Daily Mail that it's 'the perfect story of the perfect person to give the perfect result of engagement which is what the user is aiming for'.
He explained: “As someone who consults on the use of AI in business, processes and marketing, these images are clearly AI-generated.”
“These images are the personification of what the media thinks beauty is and there isn’t a flaw amongst any of them.
“This is unrealistic, certainly as more characters are added. It’s improbable to have three ‘perfect’ people with flawless bodies in the same photo.”
It appears a lot of users in the comments are also in agreement, with one person commenting: “AI!!!! None of this is real.”
“If it’s real go live stream ? I know you won’t.. guys this is fake,” another suggested.
Topics: Viral, Instagram, Social Media
Anish Vij