The Identity Loophole

In November 2025, Grammy-winning artist Victoria Monet sat for an interview with Vanity Fair and confronted something unprecedented in her fifteen-year career. Not a rival artist. Not a legal dispute over songwriting credits. Instead, she faced an algorithmic apparition: an AI-generated persona called Xania Monet, whose name, appearance, and vocal style bore an uncanny resemblance to her own. “It's hard to comprehend that, within a prompt, my name was not used for this artist to capitalise on,”