{
  "id": 4650754,
  "title": "Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/instagram-cracks-down-on-ai-accounts-pretending-to-be-human",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-31T13:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/986593/instagram-addresses-fake-ai-profile-slop"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It's also renaming the \"AI creator\" label to \"AI-generated profile\" to make it clear when a profile features an AI-generated person that's not a real human being. \"We've heard that people don't like seeing a profile […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}