AI Accounts Copy Jokes from Female Comedians

In early October, comics whose jokes were copied by AI accounts posted videos warning that their material had been taken.

By Career Ahead AI · United States — AI-assisted, fact-verified against cited sources. Readers should verify key facts.

Some copied jokes reached bigger audiences

An AI avatar account reposted comedian Olivia Carter’s joke nearly word for word. The account had 214,000 followers, compared with Carter’s 117,000, and a bigger audience than Carter herself. The difference shows how a copied joke can appear before more people on the account carrying the imitation than on the comedian’s own page. In this instance, the bot account’s follower count exceeded the original creator’s.^¹²³

George Brett Olson, a comic and content creator, accused an AI Instagram account with 300,000 followers of copying his joke word for word. Olson said the joke was about AI’s threat to jobs, making the copy, in his words, “the most ironic thing that’s ever happened to me.” He also said, “AI stole my joke and my outfit.” Olson added, “The craziest thing is that there’s no terms of service violation here.”^¹²³

Comedians describe jokes taken and reworked

Natalie Cuomo, a New York club comic whose crowd-work videos often go viral, told Deadline.com that seven to 10 of her jokes had been taken. Olga Namer saw an AI version of one of her jokes get more engagement than her own version. Namer responded with a video concluding, “I know my writing is good. It’s my boobs that are the problem.” Her line pointed to the contrast between the joke’s reception and the way the AI version presented its performer.^²³

Comedians describe jokes taken and reworked Natalie Cuomo, a New York club comic whose crowd-work videos often go viral, told Deadline.com that seven to 10 of her jokes had been taken.

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Stand-up comic Julia Jasunas said an AI account with 250,000 followers had copied one of her jokes verbatim. The AI performer was crafted to look like a stand-up comic version of Lara Croft. Jasunas drew attention to the character’s appearance with the question, “Who does comedy in Daisy Duke shorts?” The example combined a copied joke with a made-up comic persona designed to perform it.^¹²³

The accounts can turn stolen material into a funnel

Other jokes on the account that copied Jasunas’s material were traced to Char Ramtin, Olivia Carter and Hannah Berner. Jasunas said someone was using scantily clad AI-generated women to perform stolen jokes, earn money from views and engagement, and direct people to an OnlyFans account for further profit. She called the setup unsettling and added, “No wonder there’s a male loneliness epidemic.”^¹²³

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said he wanted to drive more traffic to original artists but did not think banning AI was practical. In another Instagram comment, he wrote, “I don’t think it’s practical for us to try and ban AI content from the platform.” Jasunas, a stand-up comic, and Olson, a comic and content creator, said they had received no support from Meta. A Meta spokesperson said the problem had also appeared on YouTube and TikTok. Jasunas urged viewers to support comics by attending live shows rather than scrolling through clips.^¹²³

The dispute sits inside a larger shift to online comedy

One criticism is that AI accounts attract large audiences who might otherwise have gone to the human comedians who wrote the jokes and increasingly depend on Instagram to put their work out. Instagram has focused on labeling AI material rather than removing it or giving users a way to filter it from their feeds. The platform’s Muse Tool, which would have let users create AI deepfakes from other people’s Instagram photos, was derailed after intense criticism.^¹²³

The jokes described as part of this wave came almost exclusively from young, non-famous female comics and dealt with dating or sex. That concentration makes the pattern distinct from a general spread of AI comedy: the material was taken from a particular group of performers and a recurring set of subjects.^²³

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A Microsoft executive described AI as “the largest theft of human labor in human history” in filings from The New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI. Meanwhile, AI comedians can tell the same joke in English and French. For young viewers, the first encounter with stand-up is now more likely to be in front of a digital brick wall than an actual one, placing the comedy on a screen before a live stage.^¹²³

The dispute sits inside a larger shift to online comedy One criticism is that AI accounts attract large audiences who might otherwise have gone to the human comedians who wrote the jokes and increasingly depend on Instagram to put their work out.

Protect Your Work Before AI Does

If you create original content, your audience size does not protect you. Olivia Carter had 117,000 followers, yet an AI account with 214,000 followers reposted her joke word for word and reached more people than she did. Even comics with 300,000-follower accounts, like George Brett Olson, saw their material lifted without any terms of service violation. Your first defense is documentation: keep dated drafts, recordings, and posts that prove when you made the work, because platforms label AI content rather than remove it or let you filter it out.^¹²³

The theft concentrates on young, non-famous female comics making jokes about dating or sex, so if that describes you, treat your material as a business asset. Olga Namer saw an AI version of her joke get more engagement than her own, and Julia Jasunas found an AI account with 250,000 followers copying her verbatim while funneling viewers to an OnlyFans account. Ask for payment or credit in writing before sharing new bits, and consider live shows as your primary revenue, since Jasunas urged audiences to support comics by attending rather than scrolling clips. The platform offers no support, so your contract and your archive are your only leverage.^¹²³