WASHINGTON, Nov 11 — The punchline landed just as Julia Jasunas intended – except the American comedian was not the one delivering it.
A curvy, blonde AI persona on social media was ripping off a joke about kissing a roommate that Jasunas spent years refining, adding her to a growing chorus of stand-up comedians who say artificial intelligence is enabling the theft of their intellectual labour.
The trend is part of what experts call a mass-scale creative heist facing artists – from painters to musicians – as AI extracts from their work without compensation or attribution, leaving them with little recourse.
The account that lifted from Jasunas’s routine, “Aylen Skye,” was one of several sexualized, AI-generated personalities on Instagram and TikTok that AFP found were poaching jokes from real-life comedians.
