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Week of October 26, 2026
Published October 26, 2026 · 8 items · RSS
Registry
The “widow farmer” who wasn’t there: an AI account a man crossed Brazil to meet
In October a 49-year-old man travelled about 2,100 kilometres across Brazil to meet “Jéssica,” a widowed farmer he knew from TikTok, where her account had more than 300,000 followers. When he reached Belo Horizonte on October 11, no one was there. Three days later the account posted a video saying she was made with artificial intelligence and that the aim was engagement for sales. Its bio now says so in capital letters. The Brazilian outlets Metrópoles and TechTudo reported the case. Our page documents it from archived copies of the account and the reporting, and does not link to the account. The man is a private person and is not named. We also told the story in a five-minute video.
Jéssica Fazendeira → · The video →
Registry
48 more AI personas, most labelled by their own Instagram accounts
Since our last issue the list of documented AI influencers grew from 87 to 135. Of the 48 new pages, 36 carry Instagram’s “AI-generated profile” label, which an account adds to itself. Eight say it in their own words: Uncle Sal’s bio reads “AI Generated & Operated by ProCap Financial.” Two are listed as AI creators by Fanvue, the paid site their links lead to, and two are confirmed by the company that makes them. Seventeen are health and home-remedy hosts, among them Tia Ayanna, a “90 years old” character with about 1.1 million followers. The age, life story and advice belong to a character, and several of these accounts sell products from their bios. One new rule: when an account’s own captions use the hashtag #syntheticperformer, we count that as the account saying it is AI. Two accounts joined the list that way. A third, Olivia Brand, stays unproven: her posts credit AI tools and Instagram tags some of them as AI content, but that tag marks a picture, not a person.
The documented AI influencers → · Tia Ayanna → · Uncle Sal → · Olivia Brand →
Registry
When a famous name changes, someone else can pick up the old one
Miley Cyrus has used @miley on her accounts since late August 2026. The old @mileycyrus names on Instagram and TikTok are now held by other accounts, so a profile under the old name is not her. Her page lists the accounts that are. Four creators renamed accounts this month, among them Camila Parker, who also opened a second one; their pages carry the new names, and one warns about two empty lookalike accounts. We also added a page for Megan Fox, listing her own accounts.
Miley Cyrus → · Camila Parker → · Megan Fox →
Platforms
We tested eight link-in-bio services: two show the platforms’ link checkers an empty page
Many creators put one link in their bio that opens a page of all their other links. On October 27 we asked for each of eight such services the way an ordinary visitor does, the way Google does, and the way the link checkers of Meta, X and TikTok do. Linktree, Linkme, Hoo.be, AllMyLinks and Beacons showed everyone the same links. Bouncy and SLT gave the platforms’ checkers an empty page while sending people and Google on to the real links, and Bouncy’s own help pages describe a setting that sends Meta users to its homepage instead. Linkboo hid its links from every automated visitor. Meta’s spam policy names showing its systems something different from what people see, which it calls cloaking, as something it doesn’t allow. Using one of these services doesn’t make a creator fake. We re-test them every week.
Link-in-bio pages compared →
Platforms
The platforms’ own AI rules, re-read: YouTube and X added
We checked our pages on what each platform says about AI against the platforms’ own wording on October 27, and added two. X rewrote its rule on intimate images in August 2026: it now covers creating or editing them, names AI and deepfakes, and counts asking an AI to make one as a violation. Instagram renamed its account label to “AI-generated profile” on August 31; the account adds it itself. Fanvue now says AI chat on its site must not deny being AI when a fan sincerely asks. There are seven records now: OnlyFans, Fansly, Fanvue, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X.
Platform rules → · X → · YouTube →
Registry
“Was it AI?”: Nicole Kidman’s Vogue Australia cover and IAMDDB’s likeness
Two cases joined our file of AI accusations. People online said Nicole Kidman’s new Vogue Australia cover shoot used AI to make her look younger. She and the shoot are real, and no one involved, from the magazine and the photographer to her team, has said AI was used, so the case stays unproven. Comments are not evidence either way. The British rapper IAMDDB said a music video posted, then deleted, by a government’s official accounts used an AI-made version of her likeness without her permission, and that she took no part in it. Her word settles it: AI-made, and not her. The file now holds 17 cases.
Was it AI? →
Ledger
Two Instagram accounts confirmed gone, two back
This week’s review closed two Instagram accounts by hand, one of them reported at about two million followers. Each returned “this page isn’t available” on two automated checks a week apart and in an ordinary browser, while a known-live account loaded normally in the same session. No explanation is on record. Two came back. Lauren Hamden’s Instagram, offline for about three weeks, loaded again under her name with about one million followers. Jessi Ngatikaura’s older account is back too, pointing fans to the one she posts on now. One creator’s link page now says it was deleted. A renamed page looks the same from outside, so it stays under review until next week. The ledger holds 282 dated events.
The vanished ledger → · Lauren Hamden →
Money
Where the paid links moved this week
Read from the women’s own accounts and pages in this week’s check. One creator’s link page dropped a Mynx link and renamed its ManyVids button “my videos.” Another creator’s own website opens a link page that leads to OnlyFans, her first paid link on record. A third creator’s link page added a Patreon button. One bio dropped its OnlyFans link but still calls her an OnlyFans athlete, so nothing changed on her page. Subs, a newer paid-content site, joined the list of paid platforms we never link on unclaimed pages. As always on unclaimed pages, the rows carry no address: the account is on record, the route is not.
How paid links are handled →