The internet is getting crowded—not with people, but with digital replicas of them.
Welcome to the age of synthetic humans: hyperreal AI avatars capable of emotion, conversation, and memory.

Fueled by breakthroughs in generative models and motion synthesis, companies like Meta, Soul Machines, and Hour One are building avatars that look, sound, and behave like real humans.
Brands now use AI spokespeople; influencers train digital twins to manage their online presence 24/7.

But this raises eerie questions. If your AI twin can negotiate contracts, comfort friends, or flirt—where do you end and it begin?
Some creators have even licensed their face and voice to AI agencies, creating an entirely new form of identity ownership.

The economics are wild. Virtual influencers earn millions; synthetic actors replace extras in films. Yet beneath the glamour lurks an identity crisis.
Are these avatars extensions of self—or the birth of a parallel species of consciousness, built for attention rather than experience?

Philosophers once asked whether machines could think. Now, the real question is: Can they pretend to be us better than we can?