“The fastest way to lose a good man is not cheating,” begins podcaster Sylvia Brown, “it’s becoming his biggest source of stress.”

Since creating an Instagram account in January, she’s gained 110,000 followers as a virtuoso on matters of sex, self-worth, and dating. Filmed inside a pristinely lit studio, Brown enthusiastically shares platitude after platitude into a broadcast mic. The video about losing a good man was seen by over 10 million people, including the rapper Dave East, who shared the clip and commented with five bull’s-eye emoji. “Stop expecting peace from a man building an empire,” Brown sermonized in another video that garnered over 1.2 million views. In one from March, she was succinct: “Men don’t want strong women, they want convenient women.”

Anyone intrigued by Brown’s controversial snippets may want to click through to watch her full-length podcast. There’s just one issue: They can’t. Her podcast doesn’t exist. Everything you see and hear—her voice, the neon sign behind her, those expressive eyebrows that dance up and down during her hot takes—is entirely AI generated.

This new class of digital dating guru doesn’t host real shows on Spotify or SiriusXM. They release tightly edited clips across