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AI-generated personas steal real comedy to fund subscription accounts

The New York Times, Oct 29 · read the original

AI-generated comedy accounts with up to 300,000 followers lift material from working comedians almost verbatim, using the stolen jokes as marketing for adult-subscription accounts, with eight comedians' acts replicated this way by one network alone.

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