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A new AI-related scam has surfaced featuring thousands of AI-generated influencers who have flooded social sites like Instagram using stolen images of real people. The scam includes stealing videos from real models and adult content creators, giving them AI-generated faces, and monetizing their bodies with links to dating sites for instance Patreon, OnlyFans competitions, and various AI apps. AI-generated influencers compete with humans on Instagram In April, 404 Media first reported this practice, when it first surfaced. The practice has now grown into a popular trend that has left many assuming that the Meta-run social media is either unable or unwilling to stop the seeming trend on its platform. This comes as the human content creators on Instagram say they are now competing with AI content in a way that is now impacting their viability. With some of the off-the-shelf AI tools and apps hosted on the Apple App and Google Play Stores, the AI influences can now easily create and monetize their accounts. According to Wired, they reviewed more than 1,000 Instagram accounts generated by AI and Discord channels where the people who make this content share tips and discuss strategy and several guides that explain how to make money through “AI pimping”. Wired found out that the problem, which used to be minor on Instagram had grown to become a huge practice in line with several predictions on the future social media landscape, where AI-generated content eclipses that of humans. Adult content creators who promote their work on Instagram are now worried about directly competing with these AI rip-off accounts, many of which use photographs and videos stolen from adult content creators and Instagram models. Elaina St James an adult content creator said that while there may be other changes to Instagram’s algorithm that could have contributed to…

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