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Invasion of the Sexy A.I. Joke Thieves
Swiping jokes word for word, these bodacious bots mainly lift from young female comedians. What’s so insidious is how they’re subtly changing us, the audience.
on Comedy
Invasion of the Sexy A.I. Joke Thieves
Swiping jokes word for word, these bodacious bots mainly lift from young female comedians. What’s so insidious is how they’re subtly changing us, the audience.
Where were you when the A.I. revolution came for stand-up comedy?
I was looking at my phone this month when all of a sudden my social media scrolls filled with teasingly seductive female comedians in front of brick walls, drawing hundreds of thousands of followers through flirty onstage punchlines.
If the jokes of these Stepford stand-ups, packed into crop tops and body suits, seemed familiar, that’s because they were stolen.
This taut, deftly crafted joke by Olivia Carter …
… was copied word for word, with a less expressive delivery:
In another, Olga Namer, a real stand-up, exuberantly acted out a date she had with a nice guy …
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