An AI-generated video emerged on social media Tuesday that options scores of Jewish celebrities like Scarlett Johansson and Adam Sandler talking out towards disgraced rapper Kanye West over his blatant antisemitism.
The minute-clip, which was created by an Israeli generative AI knowledgeable, in keeping with Jewish Telegraphic Company, takes a swing at West, 47, who has confronted renewed outrage for attempting to hawk swastika shirts and spewing hateful views on social media over the previous week
The deepfake footage with a model of “Hava Nagila” options greater than 20 actors, musical artists, entrepreneurs and comedians carrying a white t-shirt that has the center finger flipped off and a Star of David in the course of the hand with West’s first identify proper beneath it.
An AI-generated Sandler then offers the precise finger close to the top of the montage earlier than the message “Enough Is Enough,” cuts in.
“It’s time to stop being silent and respond to anti-Semites like Kanye West in the strongest way possible,” the video creator, Ori Bejerano, wrote in a caption on Instagram the place he shared the video.
“We must demand from the social networks to stop giving stage to antisemitism and hatred.”
He additionally mentioned financial and public stress must be utilized to West and others “for spreading their poison.”
Utilizing celebrities’ likeness in AI has turn into a rising – and controversial – pattern in recent times.
Final yr, Johansson known as out a ChatGPT voice from Sam Altman’s OpenAI that sounded “eerily similar” to her after the actress turned down a proposal from the tech firm to make use of her voice. The talking voice was in the end pulled.
Notable deep-fake celebrities in video – which has racked up hundreds of thousands of views on social media – embrace Drake, Jerry Seinfeld, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Black, former New York Metropolis Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Steven Spielberg, Mila Kunis, Ben Stiller and David Schwimmer.
The precise Schwimmer slammed West in an Instagram publish over the weekend.
“I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that he identifies as a Nazi (which implies he wants to exterminate ALL marginalized communities including his own) or the fact that there is not sufficient OUTRAGE to remove and ban him from all social media at this point,” he wrote.
West went on a four-day tirade full of despicable remarks over social media, together with praising Adolf Hitler and calling himself a Nazi earlier than he deleted his X account earlier this month.
Then in an advert that ran throughout the Tremendous Bowl, West directed viewers to a merch retailer that supplied only one product — a $20 swastika shirt.
He’s confronted backlash earlier than for previous antisemitic feedback which have prompted corporations to dump his model.
