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2026-01-26 17:32:16

Two Heads, Three Boobs: The AI Babe Meta Is Getting Surreal

Over the weekend, one of the weirder AI-generated influencers we’ve been following on Instagram escaped containment. On X, several users linked to an Instagram account pretending to be hot conjoined twins. With two yassified heads and often posing in bikinis, Valeria and Camelia are the Instagram perfect version of the very rare but real condition.

On X, just two posts highlighting the absurdity of the account gained over 11 million views. On Instagram, the account itself has gained more than 260,000 followers in the six weeks since it first appeared, with many of its Reels getting millions of views.

Valeria and Camelia’s account doesn’t indicate this anywhere, but it’s obviously AI generated. If you’re wondering why someone is spending their time and energy and vast amounts of compute pretending to be hot conjoined twins, the answer is simple: money. Valeria and Camelia’s Instagram bio links out to a Beacons page which links out to a Telegram channel whey they sell “spicy” content. Telegram users can buy that content with “stars,” which users can buy in packages that cost up to $2,329 for 150,000 stars.

Joining the channel costs 692, and the smallest package of stars the channel sells is 750 stars for $11.79. The channel currently has only 225 subscribers, so without counting whatever content it's selling inside the channel, at the moment it seems it has generated at least $2,652.75. That’s not bad for an operation anyone can spin up with a few prompts, free generative AI tools, and a free Instagram account.

In its Instagram Stories, Valeria and Camelia’s account answers a series of questions from followers where the person behind them constructs an elaborate backstory. They’re 25, raised in Florida, and talk about how they get stares in public because of their appearance.

“We both date as one and both have to be physically and emotionally attracted to the same guy," the account wrote. "We tried dating separately and that did not go well."

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Valeria and Camelia are the latest trend in what we at 404 Media have come to call “the AI babe meta.” In 2024, Jason and I wrote about people who are AI-generating influencers to attract attention on Instagram, then sell AI-generated nude images of those same personalities on platforms like Fanvue. As more people poured into that business and crowded the market, the people behind these AI-generated influencers started to come up with increasingly esoteric gimmicks to make their AI-influencers stand out from the crowd. Initially, these gimmicks were as predictable as the porn categories on Pornhub—“MILFs” etc—but things escalated quickly.

For example, Jason and I have been following an account that has more than 844,000 followers, where an influencer pretends to have three boobs. This account also doesn’t indicate that it’s AI generated in its bio, despite Instagram’s policy requiring it, but does link out to a Fanvue account where it sells adult content. On Fanvue, the account does tag itself as being AI-generated, per the platform’s rules. I’ve previously written about a dark moment in the AI babe meta where AI-generated influencers pretended to have down syndrome, and more recently the meta was pretending to be involved in sexual scandals with any celebrity you can name.

Other AI babe metas we have noticed over the last few months include female AI-generated influencers with dwarfism, AI-generated influencers with vitiligo, and amputee AI-generated influencers (there are several AI models designed specifically to generate images of amputees).

I think there are two main reasons the AI babe meta has gone in these directions. First, as Sam wrote the week we launched 404 Media, the ability to instantly generate any image we can describe with a prompt in combination with natural human curiosity and sex drive, will inevitably drive porn to the “edge of knowledge.” Second, it’s obvious in retrospect, but the same incentives that work across all social media, where unusual, shocking, or inflammatory content generally drives more engagement, clearly applies to the AI babe meta as well. First we had generic AI influencers. Then people started carving out different but tame niches like “redheads,” and when that stopped being interesting we ended up with two heads and three boobs.

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2026-01-20 15:09:04

Alleged Mail Thief Arrested After Bragging About Crimes On Instagram Stories

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A serial mail thief’s alleged robbery spree ended after he posted photos of stolen credit cards and bins of mail to his Instagram Stories on the same day he robbed a carrier at knifepoint.

Jordan McCorvey, a 32-year-old man in Ohio, allegedly robbed a USPS letter carrier’s truck while they were on their delivery route on November 28. The carrier told investigators two men approached their truck with a knife and demanded access to the truck, according to the affidavit, and when the carrier unlocked the truck and gave them access, they took a tray of mail.

The description of one of the suspects matched a man who investigators already knew as “a known mail thief with criminal history related to possession of stolen mail and bank fraud,” the complaint says. The same day as the theft, McCorvey’s Instagram accounts—with the usernames "2corkmoney," "Icorkmoneybaby," and "cork2saucy”—posted photos of him flipping through stacks of mail still in the USPS tray, showing the same zip code on the letters as the carrier’s stolen deliveries.

For the next few days, more evidence appeared on McCorvey’s Instagram Stories, where he uploaded photos and videos “involving banking transactions and other various posts connected to financial institutions,” according to the complaint. “These posts included solicitations for individuals with bank accounts or other related financial information.”

In one photo, a man—it’s not clear from the complaint whether it’s McCorvey— celebrates in front of a Wells Fargo ATM, holding a card in the air, with a Wells Fargo branch tagged as a location sticker on the photo.

This isn’t the first time an alleged criminal outed himself by bragging on social media and in public. Idriss Qibaa, the man who ran an extortion scheme called Unlocked4Life.com that promised to unlock clients’ social media accounts, admitted on the popular No Jumper podcast that he was the one locking people’s accounts to extort them out of thousands of dollars, which helped the FBI charge him.

McCorvey was arrested on January 9 in Columbus. Mail theft is a federal crime and McCorvey could face fines and up to five years in prison.

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2026-01-13 17:48:55

Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities With Sex Scandals

AI generated influencers are sharing fake images on Instagram that appear to show them having sex with celebrities like LeBron James, iShowSpeed, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. One AI influencer even shared an image of her in bed with Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro. The images are AI generated but are not disclosed as such, and funnel users to an adult content site where the AI generated influencers sell nude images.

This recent trend is the latest strategy from the growing business of monetizing AI generated porn by harvesting attention on Instagram with shocking or salacious content. As with previous schemes we’ve covered, the Instagram posts that pretend to show attractive young women in bed with celebrities are created without the celebrities’ consent and are not disclosed as being AI generated, violating two of Instagram’s policies and showing once again that Meta is unable or unwilling to reign in AI generated content on its platform.

Most of the Reels in this genre that I have seen follow a highly specific formula and started to appear around December 2025. First, we see a still image of an AI-generated influencer next to a celebrity, often in the form of a selfie with both of them looking at the camera. The text on the screen says “How it started.” Then, the video briefly cuts to another still image or videos of the AI generated influencer and the celebrity post coitus, sweaty, with tussled hair and sometimes smeared makeup. Many of these posts use the same handful of audio clips. Since Instagram allows users to browse Reels that use the same audio, clicking on one of these will reveal dozens of examples of similar Reels.

LeBron James and adult film star Johnny Sins are frequent targets of these posts, but I’ve also seen similar Reels with the likeness of Twitch streamer iShowSpeed, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, MMA fighters Jon Jones and Connor McGregor, soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, and many others, far too many to name them all. The AI influencer accounts obviously don’t care whether it's believable that these fake women are actually sleeping with celebrities and will include any known person who is likely to earn engagement. Amazingly, one AI influencer applied the same formula to Venezuela’s president Maduro shortly after he was captured by the United States.

These Instagram Reels frequently have hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of views. A post from one of these AI influencers that shows her in bed with Jon Jones has has 7.7 million views. A video showing another AI influencer in a bed with iShowSpeed has 14.5 million views.

Users who stumble upon one of these videos might be inclined to click on the AI-influencer's username to check her bio and see if she has an OnlyFans account, as is the case with many adult content creators who promote their work on Instagram. What these users will find is an account bio that doesn’t disclose its AI generated, and a link to Fanvue, an OnlyFans competitor with more permissive policies around AI generated content. On Fanvue, these accounts do disclose that they are “AI-generated or enhanced,” and sell access to nude images and videos.

Meta did not respond to a request for comment, but removed some of the Reels I flagged.

Posting provocative AI generated media in order to funnel eyeballs to adult content platforms where AI generated porn can be monetized is now an established business. Sometimes, these AI influencers steal directly from real adult content creators by faceswapping themselves into their existing videos. Once in a while a new “meta” strategy for AI influencers will emerge and dominate the algorithm. For example, last year I wrote about people using AI to create influencers with down syndrome who sell nudes.

Some other video formats I’ve seen from AI influencers recently follow the formula I describe in this article, but rather than suggesting the influencer slept with a celebrity, it shows them sleeping with entire sports teams, African tribal chiefs, Walmart managers, and sharing a man with their mom.

Notably, celebrities are better equipped than adult content creators to take on AI accounts that are using their likeness without consent, and last year LeBron James, a frequent target of this latest meta, sent a cease-and-desist notice to a company that was making AI videos of him and sharing them on Instagram.

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