Initially, Jasunas was mad but not overly shocked. Plagiarism is not uncommon in the stand-up comedy world, and comics are "really sensitive about it, because there's not a ton of protection against it," she tells WIRED. "So we all look out for each other." Then she clicked on the link

The video was of a purported stand-up comic named Aylen Skye , a buxom blond with leonine cheekbones and 250,000 Instagram followers. In the clip, Skye, wearing a crop top and Daisy Dukes, tells a joke about renting out a room in her two-bedroom apartment to a cute guy. To Jasunas' shock, it was, verbatim, her joke, down to the "ums" and "ahs."

Whoever Skye was, she didn't appear to be a comic; the website she advertised in her video, AylenTV.com, redirected to NSFW content on Fanvue, a subscription-based OnlyFans competitor that markets itself as the "No1 AI monetisation platform for creators." And not only did she appear to not be a comic, she also didn't seem to be real. After looking at Skye's comments section, Jasunas was fairly convinced she was AI