Hyderabad, April 22 -- Emily Hart, a viral MAGA influencer who amassed a massive conservative following in the United States, has been exposed as an AI-generated persona. According to Wired, the account was traced back to India, where a 22-year-old medical student created the fictitious personality as a moneymaking venture.

Sam (a pseudonym), an aspiring orthopedic surgeon from North India, was struggling to save enough money to emigrate to the US after graduation. That's when he began looking for alternative ways of earning online.

He had tried multiple things by then, including selling study notes to other medical students by making YouTube Shorts. While scrolling through his feed one day, he thought, "Why not make an AI-generated gir...