{"id":687802,"date":"2025-08-29T08:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-or-not-will-smiths-crowd-video-is-fresh-cringe-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:40:18","slug":"ai-or-not-will-smiths-crowd-video-is-fresh-cringe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-or-not-will-smiths-crowd-video-is-fresh-cringe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AI or not, Will Smith&#8217;s crowd video is fresh cringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will Smith posted a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/5-4De-zNTT4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">video<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> that shows oceans of fans cheering him on during his recent European tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy favorite part of the tour is seeing you all up close,\u201d the caption says. \u201cThank you for seeing me too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In these thousands-deep crowds, some fans are holding up signs espousing their love for Smith, with one even saying that his music helped them survive cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the video gives off an odd aura \u2014 it looks believably real at first glance, until you look closer and find digitally mangled faces, nonsensical finger placements, and oddly augmented features across the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of clips.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My favorite part of tour is seeing you all up close. Thank you for seeing me too \u2764\ufe0f\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" 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>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video looks strange enough that fans responded with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/will-smith-tour-video-appears-to-use-fake-ai-crowd-viewers-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">accusations<\/a> that the crowd footage was created using AI. It\u2019s bad <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> for Smith, who\u2019s already suffered reputational damage after \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Rock%E2%80%93Will_Smith_slapping_incident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the slap<\/a>.\u201d If he were using AI to make his concerts look more impressive, or even spinning up stories of fans using his music to cope with cancer treatment, that would be pretty indefensible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These fans aren\u2019t fake, though \u2014 or at least, that\u2019s our best guess. (There\u2019s not a reliable way to determine whether content was created using AI, which has made the current online landscape a nightmare of misinformation.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/waxy.org\/2025\/08\/will-smiths-concert-crowds-were-real-but-ai-is-blurring-the-lines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">tech blogger Andy Baio pointed out<\/a>, Will Smith has posted photos and videos throughout his tour that show some of the same fans and signs depicted in the questionable video.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-techcrunch-inline-cta\">\n<div class=\"inline-cta__wrapper\">\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-cta__content\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__location\">San Francisco<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__separator\">|<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__date\">October 27-29, 2025<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s nothing about these older posts that indicates that the photos and videos are synthetic, yet when they\u2019re depicted in this new video, they look like they\u2019ve been generated using AI. It seems like Smith\u2019s team has collaged real footage with AI-generated videos that use real crowd photos as source images, which makes the video even more difficult to interpret.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/willsmith\/\" data-event=\"clickable_image\" height=\"680\" width=\"518\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3040744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg 1598w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=114,150 114w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=229,300 229w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=768,1008 768w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=518,680 518w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=914,1200 914w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=975,1280 975w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=328,430 328w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=548,720 548w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=686,900 686w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=609,800 609w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=1170,1536 1170w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=1560,2048 1560w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=509,668 509w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=286,375 286w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=470,617 470w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=404,531 404w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-11.22.36AM-1.jpg?resize=38,50 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span class=\"wp-element-caption__text\">The images on the left are taken from an allegedly AI-generated video on Will Smith\u2019s social media, whereas the images on the right were uploaded previously.<\/span><span class=\"wp-block-image__credits\"><strong>Image Credits:<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/willsmith\/\" target=\"_blank\">Will Smith on Instagram <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(opens in a new window)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But social media audiences will not take the time to scroll through past Will Smith posts, find evidence that a fan really did listen to his music during cancer treatment, and give him the benefit of the doubt. What fans will take away from the post is that Smith is posting fake videos of his fans, which is deeply cringe, even if the reality is a bit less egregious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s bad timing for Smith, too, that YouTube had recently begun <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YouTubeInsider\/status\/1958199532363317467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">testing<\/a> a feature that would use \u201ctraditional machine learning <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> to unblur, denoise, and improve clarity\u201d on some Shorts posts \u2014 these edits made Smith\u2019s YouTube Short look even more fake than the videos on other platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YouTube\u2019s creator liaison Rene Ritchie has since <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YouTubeInsider\/status\/1960385244747719046\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">shared<\/a> that the platform will soon allow creators to opt out of this feature, which has proven unpopular thus far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You could make the argument that Will Smith has not duped his fans \u2014 that his team simply used AI to generate footage from photographs to create a more visually gripping social media post and that this practice could be compared to other forms of video editing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fans don\u2019t see it this way, though. The public is more resistant to generative AI technology than existing creative tools, like autotune or Photoshop. But even in those cases, many fans remain turned off by artists who rely on these tools in ways that feel untruthful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a fan buys tickets to see a pop star, but it turns out that his recordings only sound good because his terrible voice has been autotuned, then they\u2019d feel duped. It\u2019s like photographing a model to advertise a facial moisturizer, only to edit acne off the model\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once an artist breaks their audience\u2019s trust, it\u2019s hard to win it back \u2014 even if you\u2019re the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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