Hayley

The account presents itself as virtual. The Instagram bio that VirtualHumans.org quotes opens with "#DigitalPrincess" and "#virtualmodel", and the research team's own reading of the profile found it calling her Instagram's virtual princess since 2018 and crediting Adobe, Wacom and Civitai, tools for digital painting and AI image generation. VirtualHumans.org lists her as a virtual influencer first seen on 17 July 2018, based in California, and now inactive or discontinued; it also featured her in a June 2021 roundup of 42 newly catalogued virtual influencers.

The evidence is thin. Both descriptions come from one publisher, VirtualHumans.org, and its directory text reads like a summary of her own posts, not reporting. No interview, press piece or platform label was found, and the account carries no Instagram "AI info" tag in what the research recorded. Nothing points to a human model either: no page names a performer, a face or a body behind her.

Still unknown: who runs the account, whether every image is generated or some are digitally painted, and whether any real photographs are reworked. With the persona describing herself as virtual and no human named, she is best read as an AI or digital persona, but that rests on her own label and one directory, not on an operator's statement.