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What’s with all the AI videos of cheating fruit?

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In these videos, words are often mispronounced and plot logic is almost non-existent.

In these videos, words are often mispronounced and plot logic is almost non-existent.

PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM 3D TALES/TIKTOK

Madison Malone Kircher

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NEW YORK - The juiciest show these days is not The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives or The Bachelorette. It is a class of raunchy, nonsensical, artificial intelligence-generated TikTok telenovelas starring anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables having torrid affairs, breaking hearts and giving birth to produce babies.

In this genre, juicy is meant quite literally: The heroines and villains are apples, mangoes and strawberries.

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