One AI-generated human race, part II
The ongoing saga of a TikTok spam network
In a November 2025 post on this blog, I took a look at a network of 45 TikTok spam accounts posting strangely similar AI-generated videos of nonexistent Black people. In the ensuing weeks, this network has grown in size and broadened the variety of its repetitive content to include multiple additional types of videos. The frequency with which the network posts commercial spam has accelerated as well, with a particular focus on ads for various dietary supplements in both English and Spanish.
This spam network consists of at least 76 TikTok accounts as of December 13th, 2025. The full size of the network is likely larger, as this only includes accounts that appeared in search results for #OneHumanRace or #RespectAll from December 11th through December 13th, 2025. Each account in the network has at some point posted a series of highly repetitive AI-generated videos, although a handful of the accounts have subsequently deleted them. 43 of the 76 accounts (56.6%) have posted other types of spam as well.
As tends to happen when a spam network posts a sufficiently large volume of AI-generated media, some of the videos posted by the accounts contain glitches indicative of their artificial origin. In one particularly bizarre case, an AI-generated person’s AI-generated shirt changes color from pink to gold over the course of a ten second video. The post in question also contains additional anomalies, such as a person in the background hovering in front of a car door in the early frames.
While the initial round of videos was largely focused on friendship (“I don’t know which of y’all white people need to hear this today, but I love y’all; if you don’t got a problem with my skin, please hit that follow, we need to be friends”), some of the newer content has gone in a more romantic direction. One new type of recurring video depicts a couple (specifically, a white woman and a Black man) in identical U.S. flag shirts holding two babies. Most of the accounts posting videos of this style also have older unrelated spam posts.
In a similar vein, a few of the accounts have started posting videos asking the viewer about dating or marriage. The video above, featuring the question “Hey white guys, I have one question: why is it so hard for an Asian woman to meet an older white guy?”, is representative of the genre.
Emergency personnel are another theme of the recent wave of videos from the spam accounts. AI-generated footage of doctors, nurses, and other medical staff, police officers, and firefighters have been posted repeatedly by several of the accounts in the network in recent days. The videos generally include somewhat appropriate backgrounds: medical scenes take place in hospitals or pharmacies, cops are shown in police cars, and firefighters with a fire truck or fire station in the background.
As mentioned earlier, 43 of the 76 accounts in the network have switched to other forms of spam, much of it commercial messaging in both English and Spanish. Unlike the #OneHumanRace videos, these videos are accompanied by “Paid Partnership” labels from TikTok. The merchandise promoted in the videos varies, but dietary supplements are the most frequent theme, followed by Christmas items and clothing. This switch suggests that commercial spam was the purpose of the network all along, and that the earlier videos were a form of engagement farming for the purpose of growing the accounts prior to attempting to profit off of them.