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Sylvia, the virtual influencer who grew up, grew old and died on Instagram

When you enter Instagram, the lives of influencers looks perfect, doesn’t it? And if you follow influencers virtuales, even more! But when you see the profile of Sylvia Novack (@myfriendsylvia) the thing changes.

His feed is incredible, yes, but there is something that stands out: this influence virtual decided to document his “life”, his aging and even his death.

But how? Can a virtual influencer die?

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@MyFriendSylvia’s decision

A Sylvia Novack she liked yoga, art, coffee, the early morning routine and everything that had to do with meditation and self-help. This virtual influencer created through artificial intelligence “lived” from July to November 2020.

In four months Sylvia documented on Instagram his virtual life at 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70 years of age. The idea was to show rapid aging to measure a life.

This is what he looked like at 30:

So at 40:

So at 50:

At 60:

At 70:

The death of Sylvia Novak

On November 20, 2020, Sylvia’s family posted on Instagram:

“We are very sad to announce Sylvia’s death. Although she was not a living person in the real world, the connections he made along this path were, and we are so grateful to everyone who joined this path.”

The post received comments from human users, but also from virtual users, who thanked Sylvia for being an inspiration for their “virtual life”.

Before die, Sylvia Novack wrote a book titled What I learned from life (What I Learned From Life), with chapters on being responsible, the importance of mothers, hard work, being present, making friends, and more.

The interesting thing is that this book was actually written by artificial intelligence with a language extracted from different super popular Instagram accounts.

give it a eye here.

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