They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But Issa Rae is tired of fans using AI-generated images of her online.

The 41-year-old actress, writer, and producer took to social media to complain about fans using fake AI images of her.

“For the life of me, I don’t understand why, why I keep getting recreated via AI when my face is right there,” she said in a video.

“I would rather y’all choose my worst Getty Image,” she added. “I would rather y’all bring back them caricatures when my teeth were mad big. They use these AI-generated photos of me when my face is right there.”

Issa Rae focused on one AI image in particular. “One of them almost fooled me. This one almost fooled me. I don’t like it,” she said.

Issa Rae asks fans to stop using her in AI-generated photos:

“I would rather y’all choose my worst Getty image” pic.twitter.com/DobbtJKaWE

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The “Insecure” star was among the people honored during the 19th Television Academy Honors at the Saban Media Center on Wednesday, May 20, in Los Angeles.

“The 2-part docuseries “Seen and Heard: The History of Black Television” is executive-produced by Issa Rae and co-directed by Giselle Bailey.

“I got involved in this project when Black TV was at its height recently. Insecure was huge and just starting to wind down into its final season, and Issa wanted to make a project about the impact of Black creatives on television,” Giselle said during her acceptance speech.

Giselle thanked the Television Academy and the selection committee. “It’s such a deep honor to be able to speak to so many of the people that we grew up like watching, you know, I’m thinking about just the glimpse of light in my eye, watching some of these really heroes of culture, and then being able to speak to them, and for them to give us what really felt like a guide, because as we were making this, we were really living the story that we were telling, the fight for autonomy to tell our stories the way that we want to, for ownership.”