AI Comedians Are Stealing Jokes on Instagram to Sell OnlyFans Subscriptions

OnlyFans and Fanvue models, many or all of whom may be AI, have apparently landed on a cheap way to market their subscription services. They take a working comic’s set, run it through an AI model, and put a different body on the stage in a new video they post to their own Instagram accounts. Comedians who recognize their own bits are angry about it. But Justine Moore, a partner on Andreessen Horowitz’s consumer AI team, saw one of the accounts and called the setup “a genius OnlyFans marketing hack.” I think I stumbled on a genius OnlyFans marketing hack. This AI comedian ("Tiffany Sloane") started posting 3 weeks ago and is blowing up – 360k followers and millions of views. Her bio links to what appears to be a real woman's OF profile..using her AI persona for marketing. pic.twitter.com/jrD7cEejtm — Justine Moore (@venturetwins) October 4, 2026 The account she was talking about is Tiffany Sloane, posted on Instagram as @tiffany.bbyx. The earliest post on the account is from September 11th. Moore said it was pulling in millions of views, and the account had about 375,000 followers and 124 posts as of October 5th. The clips look like the short, live stand-up content typically seen on the platform and even include a watermark with the Instagram handle. The OnlyFans page tied to the account is linked from the Instagram highlights rather than included in the main bio, which refers to the account holder as an actress. Nothing on the Instagram bio says the sets are AI-generated or taken from real comedians. OnlyFans’ own rules say AI content has to belong to a verified creator, has to clearly feature that creator, and has to be identifiable as AI, with the hashtag #ai given as the easy way to do it. A wholly synthetic performer lives outside that set of rules. Last week, Straight Arrow reporter Rosie Thomas wrote about Instagram accounts that remade women’s dating jokes with AI-generated performers. Olivia Carter, whose personal-trainer bit has also been on Netflix and The Tonight Show, told Thomas that she kept getting sent augmented copies of her bit. Carter said she was initially unable to view the stolen content herself because the associated bot account had blocked her. Thomas also matched a Daniel Day-Lewis joke from Sarah Purdum to the same bot account. One of the accounts had about 180,000 followers and a bio that went to Fanvue, a subscription site that allows disclosed AI creators. Thomas also described a second account, not by name, whose story link went to an OnlyFans page with the bio “19, and yeah, the body’s real.” That page is the one linked from the Tiffany Sloane highlights. Using an AI persona on social media to sell a subscription is not a completely new concept. Last year, accounts built around AI images of women, including filters that made the subjects appear to have Down syndrome, pushed viewers toward paid pages. The use of stolen jokes is just a further progression of this same sort of strategy. A Technology Built on Other People’s Content Notably, Moore did not describe the account as a scam. Instead, she applauded the growth tactic. After a reply under her post attached a side-by-side of a generated woman in a tied pink shirt and a working comic in a salmon button-down, she wrote that she “figured at least some of these were video-to-video” AI creations. Michel de Cryptadamus, who writes The Cryptocalypse Chronicles on Substack, questioned whether it made sense for Moore to promote the use of AI to market a subscription with other people’s content. “I can’t be the only one who thinks its deranged that a16z VCs are out here explaining that the first and best use case for AI is to deceive the public with fake influencers,” he wrote. i can't be the only one who thinks its deranged that a16z VCs are out here explaining that the first and best use case for AI is to deceive the public with fake influencers#slugsofA16z https://t.co/2pq9f3IVc0 — ⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ (@Cryptadamist) October 5, 2026 Of course, the AI industry is largely built on content that is not owned or generated by the AI companies themselves. In a January 2023 internal memo recently unsealed in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI, Microsoft director of applied science Brent Hecht called training on scraped material “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and “the largest theft of labor in human history,” according to a legal brief revealed last month. These AI comedian accounts are a small, crude version of a similar concept. Carter told Thomas the theft itself was not even the part that bothered her most. Instead, the more troubling aspect of the situation is what it says about how the Instagram algorithm works and what it rewards more generally. “I think Instagram has made a pressure where, like, comedians are now influencers and influencers look a certain way,” Carter said. “If anything, it’s like, the AI bots just sort of validate that that is something the algorithm rewards.” “For comedy in general, we’re creating a world where people expect comics to be like AI-generated women’s bodies,” Carter added. “Like it’s just really bizarre and kind of dystopian.” Carter also said she no longer posts new jokes on social media, adding that, in her view, posting online is something comedians have hated for a long time anyway. On Threads, comedian George Brett Olson wrote that “AI stole my joke and outfit.” The post included a side-by-side comparison of snapshots from his own video and a video posted by Tiffany Sloane in which they’re both wearing similar outfits and doing the same gesture. According to Olson, Instagram is not doing much of anything to police this sort of activity. “What’s crazy to me is you can’t report this. A bunch of people tried,” Olson said. “This account has 300k followers, counting, and just full send stealing jokes from comics. What’s more it’s scary that it’s either bots commenting, people who don’t know the difference or just don’t care. Also they screwed up my punchline.” We’ve Only Just Begun The clips Olson and Carter are concerned with are edited after the fact, but the next version of this kind of AI tooling does the face swapping live. Last week, AI research lab Tavus introduced Griffin, which it calls the first human interaction model, a system that watches, listens, and generates a face and a voice in the same loop. In a study the company ran itself, 26 of 54 people on a one-minute video call thought a Griffin-Lite persona was a real person, or 48%, against under 3% for earlier systems. The company has said Griffin-Lite is a research preview, held back while it works on safety and disclosure. IRL this company will be bought by OnlyFans or some other porn company immediately https://t.co/cEwsia7bSf — Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) October 5, 2026 Breaking Points host Saagar Enjeti quote-tweeted the launch post and wrote, “IRL this company will be bought by OnlyFans or some other porn company immediately.” The case of “Tiffany Sloane” and other similar AI bot accounts focused on selling sex indicates Enjeti’s prediction could easily end up being spot on.