Look, I’ve been watching this slow-motion trainwreck for months now, and I’m not even surprised anymore. Some kid named Jeremy Carrasco just figured out what the rest of us should’ve seen coming: the creator economy is about to eat itself, and AI is holding the fork.
The guy started making TikToks about how to spot AI-generated garbage. You know, the telltale signs—wobbly eyes, objects materializing out of thin air, that uncanny valley feeling that makes you want to take a shower. Within months, he’s got 300,000 followers on two platforms. Not because he’s dancing or doing anything particularly clever, but because nobody else is bothering to teach people how to tell the difference between reality and machine-generated slop.
Think about that for a second. There’s such a tsunami of AI content flooding social media that “spotting fake videos” is now a viable career path. We’ve created a whole new job category: digital garbage sorter.
Here’s what gets me. Some account called Yang Mun—basically a racist cartoon of an “Eastern healer”—has racked up 1.5 million subscribers pushing AI-generated wellness advice. The real money comes from selling an $11 ebook that may or may not exist. People are paying actual currency for possibly non-existent books written by definitely non-existent doctors. We deserve everything that’s coming to us.
But wait, it gets worse. There are accounts stealing real women’s content, running their faces through AI generators, and slapping the results onto OnlyFans. Your likeness, your content, someone else’s profit. The future is here and it smells like a class-action lawsuit.
The platforms? They’re doing exactly nothing useful. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube—they’ve all got rules about labeling AI content. They just don’t enforce them. Why would they? More content means more engagement means more ad revenue. The fact that it’s algorithmically-generated garbage is someone else’s problem.
Meanwhile, these same platforms are building their own AI video tools. Meta and Amazon are already testing AI-generated ads. So let me get this straight: they’re flooding the zone with AI content, making it harder for real creators to get noticed, and then selling AI services to advertisers who used to pay those same creators.
It’s beautiful, really. In a watching-the-house-burn-down kind of way.
Carrasco puts it plainly: “Creators are basically just running ad agencies.” And AI is about to make that model obsolete. Some creators will try to pivot, jump on the AI train themselves. Good luck competing with infinite free content, kids.
The whole thing reminds me of that old joke about two guys running from a bear. You don’t have to outrun the bear—you just have to outrun the other guy. Except now the bear is made of code, it never gets tired, and it’s multiplying every thirty seconds.
I’m gonna need another drink.
Source: AI ‘creators’ might just crash the influencer economy