The use of artificial intelligence in comedy has drawn widespread attention after a comedian discovered that an AI-generated performer had recreated one of his stand-up routines almost word-for-word.
In a viral video comparing the two performances, he highlighted similarities beyond the jokes, including the comedians’ gait, clothing colors, and stage background. The incident sparked discussion about AI-generated content and unauthorized reproduction of comedians’ work.
George Brett Olson is a comedian and social media content creator who primarily shares comedy sketches and clips from his stand-up performances. While many of his previous videos have garnered significant attention online, one of his latest posts went viral for highlighting an apparent case of AI-generated content copying his content on Instagram, garnering over a million views in less than two weeks.
On October 3, Olson shared a video accusing AI-generated comedian Tiffany Sloane of copying a joke about artificial intelligence from one of her recent stand-up clips.
Putting together footage from both performances, Olson demonstrated how the AI-generated comedians appeared to repeat their material almost verbatim, while also mimicking their body language and reproducing visual elements of the original recording, including the colors of their costumes and the stage background.
“The AI stole my joke and my outfit,” Olson says, speaking to the camera. Here’s the setup.
The video then shows a video of an AI-generated woman on stage, with a background that looks like a painting of the Capitol building. She is wearing an attractive pink shirt and light brown pants.
“Do you know every billionaire? Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos,” she says, pointing to each name. “Every one has said, AI is coming. It’s coming for your jobs. You can’t do anything about it, and your taxes will be funding the whole thing.”
Then, the video returns to Olson talking to the camera. “Here’s my setup,” he says.
He then shows a video of himself on stage, with the same painted backdrop of the Capitol. Olson is wearing a pink shirt and light gray pants.
“Do you know every billionaire? Every single billionaire? Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos. Every single one has said, AI is coming. It’s coming for your jobs. There’s nothing you can do about it, and your taxes will finance the whole thing,” he says in the same gesture.
“Very good. That’s right. Here’s the punchline,” he says, before cutting to the video of the AI woman once again.
“Half the country hears all this and instead blames immigrants from south of the border,” she says, pointing a finger at the audience and closing her eyes.
Then, the video cuts to the original clip of Olson’s joke: “And half the country is like that: Mexicans,” he says, putting his hands in his pockets and raising an eyebrow. He shakes his head when people laugh.
Then, the video returns to Olson talking to the camera. “This is Tiffany Sloane,” she says, with a screenshot of the Instagram account @tiffany.bbyx in the background. “An AI aggregator account that steals jokes in bulk from comedians and has 300,000 followers and counting,” he explains as he scrolls through her Reels.
“Also, subscribe to her OF,” he says, showing a screenshot of Sloane’s profile on the said app.
“You might be saying, hey, this isn’t new. I’ve already heard comedians talking about this,
But this is new. Very new indeed. You’ve seen it,” he says before showing a video of memorable character Jean Phil, an AI-generated man with blonde hair and a suit, dancing.
“This video, okay? This dance? Well, this dance was stolen from this dancer, Jabri,” he says, showing the original video of the dance being performed by a black man.
“And now they’re doing the same thing for stand-up comedy clips. Taking actual motion capture from performers and putting it online and saying it’s their jokes,” Olson says, putting another video of Sloane in the background. “Also, if you don’t like Latina, you have a white girl,” he says, putting up a screenshot of a clip almost identical to Sloan’s, only with a white woman instead.
“Number one, this is the most ironic thing that’s ever happened to me,” Olson says. “Number two, the strangest thing is that there are no terms of service violations here,” he says, putting on his glasses.
“Not only historically did Meta create a platform, but all the tech billionaires created platforms that were going to be so addictive that they knew they were going to monopolize the way we consume media,” he explains, “but currently we’re seeing these people in real time saying, Hey, we’re building something that’s going to destroy everything!”
“And then looking at them there’s no one currently protecting,” he says, shaking his head slightly. He said, “There is nothing that makes us human except songs, laughter, everything great.”
“Though I think, maybe it has to be. I think people have mentioned it before: it’s the death of the Internet,” he expresses, “Meta, maybe you should realize that the reason we like the Internet is that, less important, we like each other and watch each other’s home movies.”
“And now you’re increasingly going to fill the Internet with things that aren’t us. So,” Olson pauses, “that’s weird. And also very bad,” he concludes.
In the comments, people lamented the current state of the Internet, where anything, even anti-AI jokes, can be stolen by AI agents and reposted on accounts like Tiffany Sloan.
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