I’m reading more about AI‑made profiles on LinkedIn. Not stolen photos — faces and CVs created by models. They look fine at a glance: a headshot, a job title, a few short comments.
Some of these profiles are being copied onto other sites as “team” pages or contributor bios for small services and blogs. The LinkedIn page is used as proof the person exists, even when the whole thing is AI‑made.
This isn’t just anecdotal. Security researchers and industry blogs are reporting the same pattern: synthetic profiles being used to lend credibility to unrelated sites.
It isn’t only LinkedIn. Instagram has AI influencers, Facebook has AI “local businesses”, and X has AI accounts replying to everything. Create a persona, give it some activity, then point other sites at that activity to borrow trust.
It’s simple identity recycling. Make a fake person with AI, make them look active, then reuse that footprint to make something else seem legitimate. It’s getting harder to tell what’s real.