The Record · the registry bulletin
Week of October 19, 2026
Published October 19, 2026 · 7 items · RSS
Registry
New: “Was it AI?” — viral AI accusations about women’s work, checked one by one
A video looks slightly off, and within hours the internet has decided it’s AI. This week we opened a running file of those accusations, each answered from the evidence: made by people, AI-made, or unproven. It starts with 15 cases. Olivia Rodrigo’s “Expectations” video was made by people: behind-the-scenes material from her official fan channel shows hand-drawn characters and 2D and 3D animation. The actress Neha Sharma said on her own X account that the images of her going around were AI-made. That counts, because the woman shown is the authority on whether she made them. Three cases stay unproven, among them the Taylor Swift “Showgirl” promo clips. An accusation alone never settles a case, and neither does an AI-detector score.
Was it AI? →
Platforms
The AI “comedians”: accounts telling real comedians’ jokes to sell paid pages
In October, stand-up comedians found their routines performed word for word on Instagram by young women with hundreds of thousands of followers. WIRED investigated on October 16 and found the accounts used the views to send followers to paid subscription pages. We checked the accounts named in the coverage. Aylen Skye, the biggest at about 250,000 followers, is AI: her paid page carries Fanvue’s “AI generated or enhanced” label, which Fanvue says it is required by law to apply. Her Instagram went offline after the story. Basedxlily, with about 355,000 followers, carries Instagram’s own AI label. Two stay unproven. Tiffany Sloane’s AI label was reported by two outlets in early October but was gone when we checked. Luna Fallait’s feed shows her as a guest on Conan O’Brien’s late-night show, which ended years before her account existed. If a joke from one of them made you laugh, a real comedian wrote it.
Aylen Skye → · Basedxlily → · Tiffany Sloane →
Platforms
The “$24,542 from two AI girls” story: a recycled script and a face-swap demo
A post going around X this week says a 22-year-old in China made $24,542 in a month from two AI girls, starting with $20 spent on Claude. We traced it. The same story ran twice in July with a different 22-year-old, one from Riga and one from Miami. The October version names no person or account and shows no payout, and its subscription figure is simply 1,265 subscribers times $9.99, with no platform cut. The article it points to is a pitch for Fanvue’s referral programme. The video is real but shows something else: one man at a webcam beside two “girls” in the same room, both copying his every move. That is live face-swap software, not Claude, which can’t change a face or voice on a stream. It is also how a man can stream as a woman and take tips from viewers who think she’s real. Signs to watch for: flicker at the hairline and jaw, glitches when a hand crosses the face, and a voice out of step with the lips.
Where AI personas get paid → · TikTok’s AI rules → · Fanvue’s AI rules →
Registry
21 new pages, most of them names you searched for on our AI list
Visitors to the AI-influencers list kept searching for names we didn’t have yet, so this week we added 21 pages. Eleven are AI personas confirmed by their own accounts or by their platform. Hailey Cross carries Instagram’s AI label. Her shop sells training guides for 10-to-18-year-olds and a novel written as her life story, and only one free guide page says she is AI-generated. Vicky Venice’s YouTube says her songs are recorded with AI tools. Ren Kaido, also labelled on Instagram, is one of the first two men in the registry. Ten pages stay unproven, because a third party calling an account AI isn’t enough. Bertha Cooks, a family of cooking channels with about 750,000 subscribers, is one of them. The documented AI-influencers list now holds 43 personas, up from 29 on October 9.
The documented AI influencers → · Hailey Cross → · Bertha Cooks →
Registry
AI “grandmas” and wellness hosts: 24 new AI personas, most labelled by their own accounts
This week we added 24 AI personas, many of them names visitors searched for on our AI list. Eighteen carry Instagram’s own “AI-generated profile” label, which an account adds to itself. The biggest group is older-looking wellness and home-tips hosts: “Grandma Martha, 81” (Martha Bontrager), Jennifer Sage (“63 Year Old · Wellness Expert”), Claire Parker (“75 Years Young”), Gia Russo, Dana Cross, Andrea Gomez, Meera Patel and Linda Cleans, plus two men, a cleaning host called Dale (Country Cleans, about 592,000 followers) and Ken Remedie (about 1.3 million). Most of their bios end in a shopping link, and several push the same products. The label is honest, but it is one small line under the name, and the age, family and life story in the videos belong to the character. Health tips and product picks come from whoever runs the account. The studio Blur Studios makes four more, among them Granny Spills, at about 2.2 million followers.
Grandma Martha → · Ken Remedie → · Granny Spills → · The documented AI influencers →
Ledger
No account closed this week, five held for a second look
This week’s review found no account we could close for certain. Five answered “not found” for the first time: two YouTube channels, one personal website, one X account and one Snapchat link. They stay under review until next week, because a renamed account looks the same from outside as a closed one. A backup Instagram named on one creator’s link page was unavailable too, but we had never seen it live, so it doesn’t count as a disappearance. Aylen Skye’s Instagram went offline after the WIRED story and gets its second check next week. The ledger holds 278 dated events.
The vanished ledger →
Money
Where the money rows moved this cycle
Read from the women’s own accounts in the October 19 capture:
- One creator’s link page added an OnlyFans page and a second paid page, her first paid links on record.
- One TikTok bio dropped its paid link.
- One link page cut its list down to a single tile.
- The other changes were the same paid accounts under new link addresses.
As always on unclaimed pages, the rows carry no address: the account is on record, the route is not.
How paid links are handled →