Francesca Giubelli
Francesca Giubelli is presented as Italy's first virtual influencer created with AI: a 24-year-old Roman 'Mediterranean' model and food and travel blogger, 'born' 5 January 2020 in Garbatella, Rome, with a fictional background of communication and fashion studies in Milan. Her Instagram bio calls her 'Italy's Digital Muse' and 'Powered by AI'. Italian press (Il Fatto Quotidiano, Jan 2024; Sky TG24; Forbes Italia, Apr 2024) credit KTP Web Agency's Valeria Fossatelli and Emiliano Belmonte with technical support from entrepreneur Francesco Giuliani. Her Instagram earned Meta's blue badge, reported as a first for an Italian virtual influencer. She has taken on political themes: appearance at a Fratelli d'Italia conference in Pescara (April 2024) and, in April 2025, a self-styled candidacy for Rome mayor / a civic list for the 2027 Rome elections.
- IG Followers
- 11.54K
- Threads Followers
- 3K
- YouTube Subscribers
- 9
- Since
- 2024
- Last updated
- 15 October 2026
- Nature
- AI persona
- Niche
- Food
- Style
- Photorealistic
- Debut
- 2024
- Origin
- Rome, Italy (fictional)
Summary
Francesca Giubelli is presented as Italy's first virtual influencer created with AI: a 24-year-old Roman 'Mediterranean' model and food and travel blogger, 'born' 5 January 2020 in Garbatella, Rome, with a fictional background of communication and fashion studies in Milan. Her Instagram bio calls her 'Italy's Digital Muse' and 'Powered by AI'. Italian press (Il Fatto Quotidiano, Jan 2024; Sky TG24; Forbes Italia, Apr 2024) credit KTP Web Agency's Valeria Fossatelli and Emiliano Belmonte with technical support from entrepreneur Francesco Giuliani. Her Instagram earned Meta's blue badge, reported as a first for an Italian virtual influencer. She has taken on political themes: appearance at a Fratelli d'Italia conference in Pescara (April 2024) and, in April 2025, a self-styled candidacy for Rome mayor / a civic list for the 2027 Rome elections.
Is Francesca Giubelli AI?
Yes. Francesca Giubelli is an AI-generated virtual influencer, presented as Italy's first, created by Francesco Giuliani with the Rome agency KTP Web Agency (Valeria Fossatelli, Emiliano Belmonte).
Every source that bears on it says she is generated. Her own Instagram bio reads "Powered by AI" and "Italy's Digital Muse", and the contact address is the agency's. Sky TG24, Forbes Italia, Il Fatto Quotidiano and Geopop all describe her as a virtual influencer made with AI, and Il Fatto quotes the agency itself calling her a "virtual influencer".
No page names a human model, voice actor or performer behind her. The people named are her makers: entrepreneur and programmer Francesco Giuliani, and Fossatelli and Belmonte of KTP. Forbes reports that Giuliani had the idea and Fossatelli wrote the prompt describing a "perfect Mediterranean woman" for the image generator. That makes them operators and authors, not a person who appears as her, so the verdict is ai rather than hybrid.
What is not known: which image and video tools are used, and whether a human voices her reels or writes her captions beyond the team's own statements. Sources also disagree on dates: Geopop says she was created in 2020, while Forbes and Sky place the launch in January 2024. The 2024 launch looks better supported, and it does not change the answer. Meta's blue badge on her Instagram is verification of the account, not a statement about whether she is human.
Evidence
Her Instagram bio reads "Rome, Italy's Digital Muse", "Powered by AI" and gives [email protected] as the contact.
instagram.comSky TG24 reports the project came from entrepreneur and programmer Francesco Giuliani with Valeria Fossatelli and Emiliano Belmonte, "the first Italian influencer created with artificial intelligence".
tg24.sky.itForbes Italia quotes her creators: Giuliani had the idea of an AI Italian influencer and Fossatelli wrote the prompt encoding the "perfect Mediterranean woman" for the generation system.
forbes.itIl Fatto Quotidiano says Francesca is "fake", a "virtual influencer" as the agency that created her calls her, and that Fossatelli runs KTP Web Agency with Giuliani's support.
ilfattoquotidiano.itGeopop states she is not a really existing person but a virtual influencer created with AI tools by Giuliani, Belmonte and Fossatelli, and notes Meta gave her the blue badge.
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Instagram 12k · Threads 3k · YouTube 9
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