{"id":4924,"date":"2025-09-02T15:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/will-smith-ai-concert-response\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:42:59","slug":"will-smith-ai-concert-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/will-smith-ai-concert-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith Posts Bizarre New AI-Generated Concert Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img width=\"2400\" height=\"1260\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-assets.futurism.com\/2025\/09\/will-smith-ai-concert-response.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"There's publicity stunts, and then there's... whatever Will Smith is doing, now that he has twice posted AI concert footage in as many weeks.\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<p>Last week, &#8220;Fresh Prince of Bel-Air&#8221; star Will Smith \u2014 himself the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/new-smith-eating-spaghetti-video-sounds\">victim<\/a> of a <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/ai-will-smith-eating-spaghetti\">gross AI meme<\/a> about slurping spaghetti\u00a0\u2014 showed the world that he&#8217;s not so fresh anymore when his team used AI to add rapturous fans to concert footage of his &#8220;Based on a True Story&#8221; comeback tour.<\/p>\n<p>Online observers quickly noticed that the AI had gone haywire, adding <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/will-smith-ai-concert-signs\">demonic-looking fans<\/a> with garbled signs praising the 56-year-old rapper-actor\u00a0that stood in clear contrast to the wilted-looking crowd visible in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gCqeolhXyDg\">actual video of the tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My favorite part of tour is seeing you all up close. Thank you for seeing me too \u2764\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5-4De-zNTT4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Neither Smith nor his representatives seem to have provided any sort of response to the widespread allegations of AI use.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0now the &#8220;Wild Wild West&#8221; star has posted a new video, and if there was any doubt that the last video was souped up with AI, this one should put that speculation to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because in the new video, which was posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DN9VQNxgbfw\/\">Smith&#8217;s Instagram account<\/a>, the onetime man of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=willennium&amp;oq=willennium&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyBwgBEC4YgAQyBwgCEAAYgAQyBggDEAAYHjIGCAQQABgeMgYIBRAAGB4yBggGEAAYHjIGCAcQABgeMgYICBAAGB4yBggJEAAYHtIBCDEyNDhqMGo3qAIAsAIA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&amp;vld=cid:fa39f72f,vid:Y6Rms5J7nGI,st:0\">Willennium<\/a> bounces around hued stage \u2014\u00a0before the camera pans over to the crowd, who are a bunch of AI-distorted cats.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Will Smith claps back at AI crowd controversy with latest video\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6c0_pCQnqV4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Beyond the fact that it&#8217;s obviously AI, this latest video does seem to confirm that Smith is, at very least, working with an AI illustrator.<\/p>\n<p>On IG, the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/slap-will-smith-chris-rock\">slap-happy rapper<\/a> co-posted the bizarre feline frenzy with Hawaii-based AI artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tyler-bernabe-897008b0\/\">Tyler Bernabe<\/a>, better known as his handle. Screenshots of articles about the latest Smith AI scandal are posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jboogx_creative\">hypebeast-y creative&#8217;s X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tyler-bernabe-897008b0\/\">LinkedIn pages<\/a>, and in an Instagram story he posted another from <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/will-smith-pokes-fun-ai-generated-video-by-performing-to-cats-11801366\"><em>People<\/em> magazine<\/a> \u2014 which credited him by name in its cover image \u2014 with a cat emoji.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey mom, I made it into\u00a0<em>Complex<\/em>,&#8221; Bernabe posted, with yet another feline emoji.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey mom,<\/p>\n<p>I made it into complex <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.0.3\/72x72\/1f639.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude39\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1SFkwrMo1h\">pic.twitter.com\/1SFkwrMo1h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 jboogx.creative (@jboogx_creative) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jboogx_creative\/status\/1962301127887855956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In recent months, we&#8217;ve seen a turn from <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nicolas-cage-warns-about-ai\">actors<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/paul-mccartney-ai-training-data\">musicians<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/business\/tech\/open-letter-ai-music-signed-billie-eilish-pearl-jam-nicki-minaj-1235647311\/\">calling out AI<\/a> for its potential to replace them to others rushing to post the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/indie-band-hoax-ai-admit\">lowest-quality<\/a> versions of <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/rod-stewart-ozzy-osbourne-ai-slop\">AI slop<\/a>. Hopefully, some sort of middle ground can be found \u2014 one maybe one that doesn&#8217;t include creepy dancing cats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on AI &#8220;art&#8221;: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/gooners-hijacked-ai\"><em>Gooners Say Their Brains Are Becoming Hopelessly Hijacked by AI Smut<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/will-smith-ai-concert-response\">Will Smith Posts Bizarre New AI-Generated Concert Video<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, &#8220;Fresh Prince of Bel-Air&#8221; star Will Smith \u2014 himself the victim of a gross AI meme about slurping spaghetti\u00a0\u2014 showed the world that he&#8217;s not so fresh anymore&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2482,2288,192,177,2547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-art","category-ai-images","category-ai-video","category-artificial-intelligence","category-will-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}