‘Fruit Love Island’ is TikTok’s most popular AI-generated series. It’s now facing trouble in paradise

The dating show riff’s creator complained of videos being taken down amid criticism of online AI content.

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There’s trouble in AI-generated paradise. TikTok’s most popular AI-generated series “Fruit Love Island” has millions of followers, but that may not be enough to save it from video takedowns and shifting online attitudes toward AI.

“Fruit Love Island” is exactly what the title implies: a one-to-one recreation of the popular dating show Love Island, rendered with AI and featuring humanoid fruit as contestants. When hot new bombshells enter this villa, they’re anthropomorphic cherries, bananas, pineapples, and more.

“Welcome to Fruit Love Island, where eight single fruits are about to flirt, fight, and trust—things get messy fast,” begins the first episode. 

“Fruit Love Island” is posted on an account called Ai Cinema. After launching on March 13, the account skyrocketed to more than 3 million followers in a little over a week, with every new video garnering tens of millions of views. As of March 31, the most popular episode has 38.7 million views and 1.8 million likes.

But lately, the account’s trajectory has reversed, with its creator complaining of criticism and its videos getting deleted. Of the 22 episodes of “Fruit Love Island” posted to TikTok, only 10 remain live, the other 12 apparently taken down from the app. The series’ YouTube account was also taken down.

Whether these incidents are due to mass reporting from reviewers or for potentially violating TikTok’s Community Guidelines (which outlaw content “that violates intellectual property rights”) is unclear. But one way or another, “Fruit Love Island” seems close to its expiration date.

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