Megan Thee Stallion posted real footage of herself arriving at the CFDA Awards, and Instagram’s system took one look and decided she was too good to be real. The post got labeled “AI content.”
The video is hers, from her own Instagram: Megan on the carpet Monday night in New York in a maroon Kim Shui dress, blonde hair up, posing for the cameras. She captioned the post with a thank you to the designer and the CFDA. Nothing about it is generated. It is a woman standing in front of a step-and-repeat.
She caught the label herself and answered it in her own comment section, under the post, where the comment pulled more than 37,000 likes:
“AI couldn’t generate this lol @instagram fix that please.”
Megan Thee Stallion, in her own comments
The label is automated. Instagram flags posts its systems think were made or edited with AI, and the flag misfires on real footage often enough that her replies filled up with people saying the same thing happened to their posts. One commenter pointed out that even AI edits and filters can trip it.
Getting accused of being fake by the app you posted on is a new one, even for somebody whose whole brand is being too much for people to believe. Her fix request is still sitting in the comments. The video is still up, still labeled or not, and still obviously her.
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