Miquela

Every page that discusses her says Miquela is a made character, not a person. Wikipedia describes a fictional teenage Instagram model presented as a CGI character, and says Brud, the startup led by McFedries and DeCou, was revealed as her maker in April 2018, after a staged 'hack' of her account by another Brud character, Bermuda. Variety calls her a 'CGI-generated teen robot' and 'the invention of startup Brud'. Brud's own line, quoted on virtualhumans.org, is that she is not human but a robot. That robot is part of the story. What the pages actually establish is that the images are computer-made and that a company runs the account.

The main open question is her voice. Variety reported in 2020 that nobody knows who sings as Miquela. A Brud rep would only say she uses 'pitch-correction tools and other software', which leaves room for a human singer whose voice is processed. No page we read names one, and none names a human model or performer behind the images. Her songs credit human collaborators such as Baauer and Teyana Taylor, but as producers and featured artists, not as Miquela herself.

A note on wording: Miquela started in 2016 and the sources call her CGI or virtual. None of them says she is made with today's generative AI tools. She is a synthetic, company-run persona with no named human behind her, which is what this verdict means. Who writes her posts and who voices her is still unknown.