Nollywood actress Anita Joseph has found herself in the middle of a social media dispute after an influencer accused her of removing her face from an original photograph and replacing it with her own before posting it publicly .The accusation came from content creator and influencer Caramel, who said she opened Instagram after an extended break only to find a version of her own photo circulating under Anita’s name. “You don’t even follow me on any socials, we don’t know each other, Anita, you removed my head from my picture and inserted your head in it and POSTED IT PUBLICLY?” she wrote, before sharing the original image with the caption: “The actual photo btw… why do people embarrass themselves like this?”
Rather than a flat denial, Anita’s response took a different turn entirely, she pointed the finger at her photographer.
“Chai, my AI boy said it was an inspiration from AI; this guy wan implicate me, chim. Sorry baby, I can’t even be caught up in this kind of mess. I’m so sorry, but you look great,” she wrote, suggesting that a member of her creative team had used AI to generate the image using her face and hair without her knowledge.
The explanation drew some sympathy online, with several commenters accepting that AI-assisted editing had genuinely muddied the waters and that Anita may not have known the image’s origin before posting it. But Caramel wasn’t buying it. When she noticed Anita receiving praise in the comments for the photograph, she returned with three words: “SHE STOLE IT.”
