A series of AI-generated women, who are often portrayed in revealing clothing and perform in front of fake audiences, are reportedly plagiarizing jokes from actual stand-up comedians. This approach has led them to garner millions of views on Instagram, while also directing followers toward adult subscription services like OnlyFans and Fanvue.
These digitally created personalities have quickly gained large followings, with one of the standout figures, an AI character named Tiffany Sloane, amassing over 375,000 followers shortly after her first posts in September. It’s reported that one of her stand-up videos even reached over 7 million views in just two weeks.
Sloane’s Instagram has a link to an OnlyFans page in its Highlights, and recent reports have uncovered multiple comedians whose jokes have been appropriated by these AI-generated women. For example, George Brett Olson realized that Sloane had performed a version of a joke he created regarding Republicans’ attitudes towards artificial intelligence, echoing it almost verbatim.
In a post from October 3, Olson shared a comparison displaying Sloane delivering his routine—with a matching background and even similar clothing—altering just the punchline. Olson expressed his bewilderment at witnessing this direct theft, noting how strange it was to see someone infringe on someone else’s work so openly.
After he publicly criticized Sloane, her account replied with an apologetic message indicating the video would be removed, which it subsequently was, along with several other problematic clips.
Another AI persona, Aylen Skye, has similarly gained a following of around 250,000 by using stolen material, including a routine delivered while dressed in a cropped top and Daisy Dukes. Stand-up comedian Julia Jasunas found that Skye had copied one of her jokes almost word for word, including all the “ums” and “ahs.”
Skye has also been known to promote a site leading to explicit content on Fanvue—an alternative to OnlyFans—which brands itself as a platform for monetizing AI-generated material. “It’s one thing to have your jokes stolen,” Jasunas commented, “but to see your work used for such sexualized content, enriching someone else, is just another level.”
The issue is not just limited to Sloane and Skye. Comedian Olivia Carter found her joke about asking out her personal trainer had been repurposed by several AI women, alongside the added frustration that her original material had appeared on platforms like Netflix and “The Tonight Show.”
Some of these AI accounts have gathered substantial followings—one alone had 180,000 followers and another boasted 240,000—while Carter only had about 113,000 at that point. This conversation has highlighted potential gaps in Meta’s regulations regarding impersonation and intellectual property.
Jasunas reported that her complaint regarding impersonation was dismissed by Instagram because the AI was not pretending to be her, even though it was delivering her jokes. Similarly, Olson learned that the reports generated about Sloane’s content didn’t breach community guidelines either.
Consultations with an intellectual property attorney led Olson to conclude that pursuing legal action might not be beneficial unless significant profits were involved from the OnlyFans account in question.
In response to these developments, Instagram’s head, Adam Mosseri, acknowledged the issue after Olson brought it to his attention. He indicated that Meta is keen on drawing more traffic toward original content creators and is considering how to handle AI accounts that blatantly replicate others’ work. However, he also mentioned that banning AI content entirely might not be feasible since identifying it is becoming increasingly challenging, and not all AI content is necessarily poor quality.
Efforts have been made to reach out to OnlyFans and FanVue for comment.
