The Racist AI TikTok Scam That's Flooding Your Feed
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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4.1 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Fake AI-generated Black women are flooding your social media feeds, performing self-hatred, pushing porn sites and drop shipping scams, and raking in cash for anonymous creators who'll never be held accountable.
Jeremy Carrasco, the internet's go-to AI debunker, breaks down who's behind it, why platforms keep looking the other way, and why one Black student researcher's testimony made him want to do something about it.
AI Blackface: Profiting on racist depictions at scale: https://www.riddance.ai/p/ai-blackface-profiting-on-racist
AI videos of sexualised black women removed from TikTok after BBC investigation: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c070e283k8vo
Bridget explains the evolution of digital Blackface from its antebellum roots in this Youtube video: https://youtu.be/yh-2il78AEA
Digital rapper FN Meka and the new era of digital Blackface: https://omny.fm/shows/there-are-no-girls-on-the-internet/digital-rapper-fn-meka-and-the-new-era-of-digital
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.2 | There are no girls on the internet as a production of IHeart Radio and UnBossed Creative. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:22.1 | Someone, probably a guy in a basement somewhere, has figured out that if you generate a black woman and make her say degrading racist things about herself, you can make money on the internet. |
| 0:34.1 | Probably not a lot of money, maybe just a few hundred dollars a month, but enough to |
| 0:39.2 | keep on doing it. TikTok, Instagram, and every other social media platform, they're serving it |
| 0:45.4 | up on your social media feed right now. It's AI generated digital blackface, and it is |
| 0:51.1 | absolutely everywhere on social media. There are accounts built entirely |
| 0:55.7 | around it, fake black women with impossibly dark skin, performing self-hatred, and funneling |
| 1:02.0 | viewers to things like porn sites and drop shipping scams. So this is not one of those future |
| 1:08.2 | AI problems we might have to grapple with down the line. This is happening |
| 1:12.8 | right now. And Jeremy Carrasco is one of the people actually trying to do something about it. |
| 1:18.8 | He's kind of become the AI debunking guy on social media. He started out as a video production guy |
| 1:25.3 | working in live streaming and technical producing, |
| 1:31.6 | and that background has given him a sharp eye for spotting AI fakes. |
| 1:37.4 | When Jeremy partnered with the BBC to expose over 100 of these AI-generated accounts, |
| 1:41.9 | TikTok actually listened, pulling 20 of them down within three days. |
| 1:45.8 | It's a start, but as Jeremy will tell you, it is a very small dent. My name's Jeremy Carrasco, creator at Jeremy Finds AI and director of riddance. |
| 1:55.7 | So I love that you kind of come at this from a technical place as somebody who got, you know, was working |
| 2:02.9 | in live streaming, making content. |
| 2:04.9 | I feel that so much of the conversation around AI has really been set by tech companies |
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