Earlier this month, footage was launched of considered one of Will Smith’s gigs which was allegedly AI-generated.
Snopes agreed that the group pictures featured ‘some AI manipulation’. You’ll be able to watch the video beneath:
Will Smith is being accused of posting a video that options AI-generated pictures of followers cheering within the crowd throughout his tour pic.twitter.com/1Zvmp1p8MgAugust 27, 2025
Eagle-eyed viewers who paused the footage noticed some telltale indicators: specifically, that the AI ‘followers’ within the video seemed much less like people and extra like, properly, alien creatures in a horror film who’re determined to suck out your soul. Their palms had been elongated and had extra fingers than the kids of incestuous relationships, whereas their blurred facial options resembled melted candles within the form of ghouls.
Nonetheless, it seems the emotive slogans had been actual and had been held by actual Smith followers, equivalent to Patric and Géraldine of Switzerland, who held up an indication saying “‘You Will Make It’ helped me survive most cancers. Thx Will’. And to be honest to Smith, it seems that the large crowds within the video had been actual: his staff had merely used AI to show nonetheless pictures into brief movies.
Inexperienced Day laughed at Smith on Instagram, posting a shot of their followers at a gig with the caption: “Do not want AI for our crowds”.
Nonetheless, although his motive appears to be merely producing AI movies from stills, Smith’s is unlikely to be the final instance we see of performers utilizing AI footage of followers. Each music artist needs a full-to-bursting, over-emotional stadium crowd who’re hysterical with pleasure at seeing their idol(s). So when you, not like Smith, personally cannot get actual footage of that, then why not faux it? (Most likely as a result of the web is stuffed with cruel, important sleuths who’re going to roast you till you are a smoking heap of charred stays.)
Donald Trump’s staff have allegedly paid extras to look at his rallies to fill spare stadium seats, however that is costly and in addition dangerous as individuals may not present up – or, even worse for the staff, Democrats would possibly flip up. Producing AI footage is much cheaper, even when it burns bushes.
You may additionally make your crowds as engaging, younger, unisex, and ethnically various as you need – even when the pause button does reveal them to be extra horrifying than the zombies in I Am Legend.