“I was like, that’s really niche because it looks so real,” influencer Zoe Ilana Hill says.
The 26-year-old jumped on the trend after being impressed by the imaginative way another content creator had used AI, by editing some of her original photos and adding AI dogs.
“I don’t want to see it [AI] as a threat to my career, I want to see it as something I can work alongside with,” the full-time influencer says.
Zoe, who has 82,000 followers, says she feels like platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok are trying to “push” and “force AI” on users, and has seen her fair share of slop her own feed.
But she saw potential in the AI animal trend, adding that she suspected the post would perform well as she thought social media users would “be like, oh my God, she’s holding a deer”.
“The deer is so seasonal and that is so rare to be actually able to go and physically see a deer in person,” she says.