The Sienna & Vivi Experiment

The Sienna & Vivi Experiment

For a while, I was deep into an experiment—one that mixed AI, photography, and digital personas in a way I’d never done before. That’s how Sienna and Vivi came to life.

The idea was simple: create ultra-realistic AI-generated influencers, make them look and feel like real people, and see how far I could take it. Not just in terms of visuals, but in how AI and creativity could blend to build something believable. I used MidJourney AI, Render.net AI, and Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects) to craft every image, every detail, every aesthetic choice. It was fascinating—watching how much control I had, tweaking their expressions, styling their shoots, and making them seem just as real as any influencer out there.

And it worked. People believed it.

The Reality Check

That’s when I started to feel weird about it. I’m not really into social media like that. I don’t chase likes, I don’t care about viral trends, and I definitely don’t enjoy the whole “playing the algorithm” game. But for this project to work, I had to dive into all of that. I had to act as if Sienna and Vivi were real.

Then came another realization: once people started interacting with them, I got a front-row seat to how fake everything on these platforms really is. The way people assumed they were real, the way interactions played out, the weird DMs, the way people wanted to believe in something that wasn’t even there.

I already saw social media for what it was, but this just made everything even clearer. It reinforced what I already believed—so much of it is built on illusion, on selling a version of life that isn’t real. The way people interact online, the assumptions they make, the way they blindly trust and engage with something just because it looks polished—it was just more proof of how detached from reality these platforms can be.

I also got a glimpse of what it might feel like to be a woman online. The amount of attention—wanted or unwanted—that Sienna was getting made me step back and go, “Damn, this is what people deal with every day?” It was a whole new perspective. I know there are good, genuine, and honest people online, but from this side of things, it felt like the platform thrives more on the fake, the curated, and the illusion of reality rather than reality itself.

Was It Worth It?

Absolutely. Not because of the outcome, but because of what I learned. For me, every project is about the process, not just the end result. I love figuring things out, testing limits, and creating things that make me go, “Whoa, that actually worked.”

Sienna and Vivi were never about making money or becoming the next AI influencers. They were an experiment—one that taught me a lot about AI, social media, and even myself. I don’t regret it, but I also knew it wasn’t something I wanted to keep pursuing.