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Topics: Instagram, Social Media
Britt Jones
An influencer has responded to backlash after she was accused of using a Black influencer’s image and superimposed her own face onto the body using AI – despite being a white woman.
Lauren Blake Boultier has finally come out to speak about the controversial picture she posted of herself, which was allegedly Tatiana Elizabeth at the U.S. Open two years ago.
Boultier became the subject of Elizabeth’s accusations after she posted to Threads and her Instagram Stories to claim the influencer had used AI to put her face onto her body.
The 2024 photo of Elizabeth was shared side-by-side the image Boultier posted, which showed both women wearing the exact same outfit, posing the same way, with the very same background.
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However, you can see that below the neck, they also share the same skin tone.
Boultier went on to apologize on Instagram for the use of AI, stating that she takes ‘full responsibility’, per TMZ Sports.
"That shouldn’t have happened, and I take full responsibility,” she said, adding that she did not purposefully use Elizabeth’s image.
"This came from an A.I. content system my team uses to generate images at scale," Boultier told TMZ. "I did not see the original image or intentionally set out to copy anyone’s work, but that doesn't change the outcome."
"I understand this impacted another creator, especially when it comes to respecting original work, and I never want to contribute to that kind of frustration or harm within the creative community that I have been a part of for 10 years," Boultier added. "I take full responsibility for what appears on my platforms.”
She went on to share that she has since messaged Elizabeth, and vowing to ‘have more oversight with my agency to ensure my content is handled with the integirty and respect it deserves moving forward’.
She concluded: "I am deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused the original creator and the community at large."
"Bar for bar," Elizabeth initially said in her March 30 post, which called out Boultier for using her image: "The weirdest part about this is that it’s not even an AI influencer. This is a real person who used AI to put her head on my body.”
She went on to claim that Boultier also used the image to pretend she had attended the 2026 Miami Open between March 17 and March 29.
“She geotagged MIAMI as if she’s at the Miami Open. When my photo was taken at the US open two years ago,” Elizabeth continued.
Then, on her Instagram Stories, she wrote: "Well this is..... peculiar...I was here too!! In this same exact outfit and the same watch, same bag, picture was taken at the same angle even..omg we even have the same tattoo!!!!!!?"
She later scathed: "Pretending to be somewhere you weren't, in something you've never worn, as someone you're not... for social media. It's a little scary.”
The influencer also shared a TikTok video about the situation, where she added, "And by no means am I trying to bash this girls into health is real, and I'm not a bully... I'm just, I'm a little perplexed."
"I just want to know what was the reason," Elizabeth continued. "Cause social media got to our heads that much that we are completely disregarding couth?"
After Boultier's apology, Elizabeth went on to post a TikTok about it, revealing that she doesn't believe the influencer took any 'accountability'.