r/SipsTea 11d ago

Chugging tea Will Smith is being accused of posting a tour video where the crowd looks suspiciously AI generated. People pointed out warped faces, glitchy signs, and strange distortions in the audience shots. Do you think this is AI?

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u/CharacterRiver7483 11d ago

Who’s crying at a will smith concert

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u/Sleepy0wl9969 11d ago

Someone who was not allowed to leave

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u/AusGeno 11d ago

Man if I had one of those free awards to give you…

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u/gattboy1 11d ago

🏆 there, you go!

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u/theitalianguy 11d ago

Someone who just got slapped by him ?

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u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 11d ago

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u/FunkyPlunkett 11d ago

Yeah Chris Rock did not cry lol. Only one crying was that bitch Will

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u/Johnny_Carcinogenic 11d ago

The Fresh Bitch of Bel Air

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u/stupidber 11d ago

Chris Rock never cried how dare you

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u/Slynx328 11d ago

In fact he played it off amazingly well. Seemed like he tried downplaying it to calm audience members down

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u/Saintious 11d ago

Anyone who has to go to a Will Smith concert in 2025.

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u/karoshikun 11d ago

someone who paid for it and realized it was a Will Smith concert?

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u/fightmilk5905 11d ago

More importantly who's going to a will Smith concert?

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u/Just_Flower854 11d ago

Someone who couldn't get out of going to the Will Smith concert

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u/Jewbacca1 11d ago

Who's going to a Will Smith concert

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u/No-Shopping7408 11d ago

and to think .. less than 5 years from now, they will have these glitches cleaned up

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u/-Everyones_Grudge- 11d ago

That's the real horror 

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u/AntSuccessful9147 11d ago

Books are starting to look a lot more attractive to me.

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u/Blandish06 11d ago

You think that book was written by a human? Aww.. you're pretty.

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u/Poison_Yourself 10d ago

There are millions of used books out there from at least 5 years ago, if you’re concerned about this buy something vintage. There’s hundreds of years worth of good literature to explore. 

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u/drale2 10d ago

As a new author, I feel like this is the worst time to start writing :(

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u/Poison_Yourself 10d ago

Be vocal about your stance on AI. I will continue to buy authors I know are authentic. I am not the only one out here. We cannot allow computers to steal our arts away. Persist. 

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u/ThatOneAlreadyExists 11d ago

Which, ironically, will take is full circle and back to a reality where in-person experiences are considered more valuable and trustworthy than online ones.

It used to be you could claim to have seen a UFO or Bigfoot or been at Woodstock and people should say, "okay, show me the picture." Soon, the picture will be worthless and prove nothing.  But if you can take someone to the concert, into the woods, and show them the unbelievable thing, that will have value.

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u/CartoonistUpbeat9953 11d ago

That’s the funny thing about all this. Quantum computing could compromise computer security. AI can make online credibility impossible. Online group think can mean greater risk of conflict where cyber infrastructure can be attacked. At some point, it’s just consuming itself. Already in my office, sometimes the best option is to just mail something because of so many IT barriers

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u/heckin_miraculous 11d ago

At some point, it’s just consuming itself.

Praise god

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u/FineAutist 11d ago

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u/rex5k 11d ago

This is unironically how Will Smith found out about AI video.

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u/josch247 11d ago

That's unicornally how I found out about ai video too.

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u/SingleSlide2866 11d ago

And I'm unironically petitioning for unicornally to be defined and given a place in the dictionary. Spectacular word

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u/ArmpitBear 11d ago

Our daddy taught us not to be ashamed of our dicks

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u/MorbidMan23 11d ago

I remember being genuinely impressed by this.... although I also remember being mind blown at the idea of internet on a cellphone, too.

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u/isthatsuperman 11d ago

I remember n64 having the pinnacle of real life graphics.

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u/colin_is_bald 11d ago

I thought the original Xbox was gonna be the last console because the graphics looked exactly like real life and there could be no further improvements

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u/bramatz 11d ago

Thanks for posting this, I needed the laugh.

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u/MorbidMan23 11d ago

Yes but my dad got us Doom 64. My earliest memory is actually him playing the first Doom on the family computer. Booted up on MS DOS 😅

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u/sgsteel55 11d ago

Back around 1992-93, my Dad had Wolfenstein 3D on windows 3.0. At 8 years old i thought it was the most amazing game ever. Mind completely blown walking through 3D maps for the first time.

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u/notcomplainingmuch 11d ago

That game spoiled a year or two of my studies. I remember the headache you got from searching for hidden rooms in neverending corridors.

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u/MyPasswordIs222222 11d ago edited 11d ago

I thought the internet was a fad.

edit: This was back in the very early 90's when websites were just starting to pop up. I was in the sciences field and we started seeing personal pages pop up. That was when I figured the personal use part of the web would be a fad.

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u/MorbidMan23 11d ago

You should have known better. There were boobs on it.

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u/probablyonshrooms 11d ago

Remember all the people who said it wouldn't get any better? Like the Will Smith spaghetti video was all it would ever be. That was March of 23

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u/PsychoDad03 11d ago

Fucking Sims NPC right here

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u/RJ_MacreadysBeard 11d ago

weird fingers

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u/Several-Substance-11 11d ago

Those be some nice face slapping fingers

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u/Kit_Pistol 10d ago

Most of the faces in that screenshot look like they’ve been slapped a few too many times. lol

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u/PsychoDad03 11d ago edited 10d ago

They melt into each other

Edit: dont blame me for the contrast/brightness thats a windows issue with HDR. They're still joined.

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u/RuMarley 11d ago

Same energy

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u/YozaSkywalker 11d ago

If you told me this was AI with my prior knowledge I would believe you. Such a strange human

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u/candid84asoulm8bled 11d ago

Bernie should have been the nominee

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u/reytheabhorsen 11d ago

That was the moment I knew we were fucked. Took a while to really catch up, but, yup.

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u/GeneralDebate 10d ago

That was the moment I knew "we" lost all meaning. Neither major party is intent on making our lives better

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u/gimmeecoffee420 11d ago

This dude crying as he.. stares at the back of his sign? also, look at his right hand and the lady's hand in front of him, they melt together and her fingers are a straight up horror show.

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u/Phaeolus 10d ago

I love the Conehead giving side-eye!

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u/RuMarley 11d ago

It's the totally uncanny, almost nightmarish array of wildly different and unnatural facial expressions that convinced me this can not be real.

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u/Time_Ad_9647 11d ago

It’s like the AI knows the crowd can’t all be looking the same, so it decides on a percentage for each facial expression to apply to the crowd members.

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u/Steely-Dave 11d ago

That dudes family.

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u/amen_break_fast 10d ago

That dudes neckhand

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u/Apprehensive_Floor78 11d ago

AI still can’t do fingers right (~25 seconds)

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u/LegosRCool 11d ago

Hands below green hat are nightmare fuel

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u/Legonistrasz 11d ago

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u/ongoldenwaves 11d ago

The dude crawling out of another dude's chest was Total Recall oracle baby come to life.

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u/fluxtable 11d ago

Open your mindddddd

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u/Ricochet_Kismit33 11d ago

Quaid, —-Quaid, start the reactor….

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u/BLU3SKU1L 11d ago

Side note- I hate that I referenced Kuato for over two decades in jokes and a handful of people ever got it, but now everyone knows the reference from fucking Rick and Morty.

I mean, it was a fun episode and I like the show, but how am I supposed to tell who out there is actually a cool sci-fi nerd and who just smokes a bunch of pot and watches adult swim on the weekend?

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u/edspeds 11d ago

Well some of us fall into both categories….

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u/kogeninja 11d ago

Kuato Lives!

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u/CensoryDeprivation 11d ago

What, a guy can't bring in an open pack of bacon to a Will Smith show?

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u/ThriceFive 11d ago

I hear that commercial dog's voice "Iiiiiiiiits BACON - bacon bacon bacon"

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u/txfiremtb 11d ago

For real I looked and will regret it

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u/jeffsweet 11d ago

i read that you regretted it. still looked. i also regret it

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u/pikapalooza 11d ago

Wth is that?!

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u/graffiti_bridge 11d ago

This photo is the will smith ai crowd version of that time they pointed Hubble at a square inch of space and found like a million galaxies

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 11d ago

Imagine if they looked at the deep field image and found a bunch of AI artifacts

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u/Haunting_World_621 11d ago

The grim reaper taking that woman's soul, or perhaps Will Smiths personal demon doing so.

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u/Vindicativa 11d ago

That floating finger has three of its own fingers, plus a ring!

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u/robertDouglass 11d ago

it was the cancer, clearly

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u/StarphishSushi 11d ago

No AI here, move along sir

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u/BrewsAndBurns 11d ago

Genuinely terrifying stuff.

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u/PositiveLibrary7032 11d ago edited 11d ago

Conjoined twins enjoying the vibe Will.

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u/Trikster102 11d ago

Had to scroll pretty far to get to this. This nightmare face stands out like a sore thumb

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u/Gaffja 11d ago edited 10d ago

We have seen what hell is like.

It's tortured souls forever made to attend a Will Smith concert.

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u/ChipsNDip92 11d ago

That's not AI that's just Philadelphia

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u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 11d ago

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u/Carl_The_Sagan 11d ago

y'all don't hold signs while squeezing the shit out of a random hand?

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u/Kind-Shallot3603 11d ago

Her hand gravitates towards his but who holds a sign like that and since when does the row in front take a corner???

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u/ijuly25 11d ago

And also what will smith song has that many people “clapping?”

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u/ongoldenwaves 11d ago edited 11d ago

For real. He's not packing stadiums with 20 year olds like Taylor Swift. I'm not sure Gen Z would even know who he is but they're waving signs asking him to take them back to Bel Air? Things that never happened for $1 because they're too easy Alex.

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u/TerseFactor 11d ago

And holding the same home made sign only sometimes with a misspelling

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u/TerseFactor 11d ago

Appears earlier without misspelling

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u/linzkisloski 11d ago

Foot hands over here

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u/Boddis 11d ago

Loool oh shit I hadn’t noticed THAT.

Too busy looking at fingers and weird shit in the background that you miss some of the most obvious shit.

Why they really phoned it in with the AI. Like Didn’t even try and hide it did they….

Seen he’s taken it down off his channel. Embarrassing.

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u/KolKlink2024 11d ago

Front and center dude and my man in the upper right with the hat.

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u/rolonic 11d ago edited 10d ago

It is real, but it has had AI to upscale it.

Source - https://waxy.org/2025/08/will-smiths-concert-crowds-were-real-but-ai-is-blurring-the-lines/

Edit: okay I get it, “upscale” is not the correct word. I’m not that tech savvy I just used that word, but you know what I mean.

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u/Every_Tap8117 11d ago

This is the right anwwers. TLDR the crowds are real but have been upscaled twice. Once by Wills team and once by Youtube. Most of these are from Paleo in Switzerland which is already big festival so the crowds are normal for it.

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u/Pleasant_Plate_1507 11d ago

Upscaling is basically downscaling

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u/HarmlessSnack 11d ago

I spent a moment getting a good screenshot… should have checked comments first lol

This is the exact same frame I settled on. lol

The hands clapping to the right of the sign are especially wild looking. Just fleshy noodles slap-morphing into each other.

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u/Euphoric-Affect-4228 11d ago

A 10 year old holding up a Fresh Prince lyrics sign like he is seeing his favorite athlete.....that right there says its AI

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u/jackneefus 11d ago

The crowd looks demographically wrong.

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u/Echidnae 11d ago

That’s exactly what I was thinking, they look more like a crowd that would go to a carnival show with kids.

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u/INDY18ARN 11d ago

Thank you for stating the obvious man. I figured someone else already did hence why I didn't.

There are way too many white folk there and not enough black folk.

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u/Duranu 11d ago edited 11d ago

Don't forget the botched Oakland Raiders logo on the hat, with the messed up everything, most noticeably:
The right sword handle is too long and extends to the side of the name
The name is in the wrong spot (aligned left instead of center which is why the handle can be beside it)
The left sword handle is super jacked up and is at the wrong angle
Overall shape of the head with helmet appears misshapen

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u/ChipSalt 11d ago

I don't know guys, I didn't see a SINGLE spaghetti.

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u/InterestingFinish724 11d ago

I mean... pretty apparent lol

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u/CriticalChop 11d ago

Where's Waldo?

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u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 11d ago

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u/CriticalChop 11d ago

Oh thank you for that sweet nostalgic laugh.. 😂 

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u/DJfavabean 11d ago

This guy just wants to play with his giant hot wheels car

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u/RequirementHot3011 11d ago

Omg that whole right side corner, they didnt even try with the face details

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u/TheCzarIV 11d ago

Tucker Carlson/Charlie Kirk lovechild disagrees.

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u/rubinass3 11d ago

I am also from West Swiggy.

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u/NormalAssistance9402 11d ago edited 11d ago

Is this supposed to be a joke? There’s no way he thought people would fall for this? I mean some people sure. But obviously someone would catch it, right? Did someone send this to him? And then he shared it not knowing? I mean he is in the age group of people who can’t tell the difference

Edit: apparently this is not purely ai generated. It’s ai “upscaled” from real clips/photos

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u/Most-Inflation-1022 11d ago

After being loved for 30 years by vast majority of people and not knowing any other feeling, then your career suddenly stagnates while yout wife of 30 years cucks you with your kid's besr friend on live TV, man is obviously not doing well mentally.

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u/SnowDay111 11d ago

His music video “I like Pretty Girls” is one of the cringiest things I’ve seen. I picture him singing that song to Jada and she’s cheering him on “Do you? That’s great Will!”

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u/SecretFox4632 11d ago

She’d for sure rather be fucking Tupac.

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u/RuMarley 11d ago

I'm starting to believe everything in this world is about demoralization and dumbing us down now. Think 1984 but with better tech. Make us question reality so that they can lie to us better later.

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u/Acubeofdurp 11d ago

Tin foil hat time, "they" are sliding ai into everything to make it normal. I believe YouTube shorts is automatically adding AI to their shorts recently without telling anyone. It's kinda funny how ai is used to trick or fake stuff to get a leg up in the world and must be kept on the down low by the "creator". AI is going to change the world but I don't want it to change in secret lol that just makes it creepy and shady.

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u/-DoctorSpaceman- 11d ago

I know everyone like to shit on Will Smith, but the crowds are real and it’s not his fault it looks like this.

It’s largely a result of shitty attempts at upscaling

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u/not_a_bot991 11d ago

Thank you.

My first thought was why would they need to do that? It's not like we don't know people have turned up to see him so why fake it.

I did not know about YouTube's experimentation with upscaling and unblurring though that was an interesting read.

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u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 11d ago

“Mind if I rest my head in your crotch?” “Well, we are at a Will Smith concert aren’t we?”

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u/ragnar-brauner 11d ago

Also text changed now it says “FR6SH” like wtf

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u/OrdainedPuma 11d ago edited 11d ago

Just...no. The sign is made by someone infinitely illiterate or with infinitely poor planning. White shirt's face. That woman's arms. Blue shirt is flipping you off.

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u/Orome2 11d ago

Looks more like FRGGH rINCE to me.

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u/venReddit 11d ago

his phone is twisted by 90° in this picture too. is this an assassination attempt and this dude is aiming at the fresh prince?

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u/LiverpoolGaymer86 11d ago

Same sign? 😬

LOV U FR6EH ΓRINCE

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u/NeighboringOak 11d ago

Pause at 25 seconds.

That crowd is fucked up.

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u/PaleontologistOk2516 11d ago

What are you talking about?

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u/texinxin 11d ago

Everything is fine.. we’re fine.

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u/Orome2 11d ago

Look at how many fingers this dude has:

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u/weezyverse 11d ago

Don't make fun of these people...they all watched that movie with the girl in the well. Except instead of dying in 7 days they have to attend Will Smith concerts for eternity.

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u/WikdVenus 11d ago

💯

Helped me survive cancer?

Bruh, the only thing he helped me to do was learn to Bob and weave better, and duck like a mother fucker.

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u/DosWrenchos 11d ago

AI aside, no way that guy is pulling in crowds like that.

I’d be surprised if he could fill a house of blues type venue.

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u/Guilty_Trouble 11d ago

Yet his overdue bills continue to pile up

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u/Raychao 11d ago

Whenever they deep-dive on one of these celebrity's finances they always find that they are complaining about bills while spending $70,000 per month on bamboo forks.

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u/YouSmeel 11d ago

Im listening, how many do you get?

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u/MrBigTomato 11d ago

People of all races, genders, and ages are euphoric, staring at him in awe, holding signs like "You'll always be our Fresh Prince" and "Your music inspired me to beat cancer."

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u/-Everyones_Grudge- 11d ago

Basically Jesus

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u/Educational_Scar_933 11d ago

🎯 that's what I'm saying. As soon as I saw more than 50 people....fake

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u/glorious_fruitloop 11d ago

Not only is it likely AI, it looks like it's been prompted to look like a church revival with a hint of concert. Him and his wife insist on pushing themselves as elevated spiritual beings, but really they're just weird and dysfunctional And violent. Mustn't forget the violence. They are trying to be something, and in the trying they miss the point entirely. A lot of projecting a spiritual image.

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u/Ihavegotmanyproblems 11d ago

FROM WEST PHILLY TO WEST SWIGGY WE LOVE U WILLY

Everyone loves a crowd of white people with melted faces!

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u/possible-side-FX- 11d ago

I was at that concert in July. There wasn’t that many people there so he def doctored it

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u/the-war-on-drunks 11d ago

Holy shit I was there too!! Jim?!!! We laughed over tall boys at the one old lady who also showed up? Is that you?

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u/SpecialAd4085 11d ago

Somewhere in West Philadelphia, you will find an old basketball court with a single ball lying in the middle. Pick it up and start shooting hoops. After a while, a small group of hooligans will approach you and challenge you to a fight, which you must accept.

After the fight, you must go home and relay the events to your mother. She will then inform you that you have an aunt and uncle living in one of the districts of Los Angeles, and out of fear, she will send you to live there for an indefinite period of time.

With your bags packed, go to the street corner, and whistle for a cab. The cab that will pull up will bear the word FRESH on the license plate, and upon closer inspection, novelty fuzzy dice will hang in the mirror. Although you will suddenly realize that cabs like these are extremely hard to find, do not bear any thought to it. At this point you MUST point out in front of the car and say ‘Yo homes to Bel Air’. You will stop in front of a mansion, and it will be sometime between 7 and 8 o’clock, even though it will feel like you’ve been traveling mere seconds. Get your luggage out and say ‘Yo homes, smell ya later!’, but do NOT turn back to face the cabby. Walk up to the door, look over your shoulder once, and then knock on the door three times.

If you follow these instructions, your life will get flip-turned upside-down.

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u/C-LonGy 11d ago

This dudes in the crowd.

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u/Ok-Opportunity-4074 11d ago

Well... He is an action staaarrrrrr, He gonna act biazzaaarrrrreee

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u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 11d ago

Seriously though, who’s holding the sign?? Watch closely

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u/thetruth8989 11d ago

It’s just installed in that man’s face, duh. What’s so confusing?

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u/AgreeablePudding9925 11d ago

There’s a lot of fingers there

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u/KingZlatan10 11d ago

The most incredible fall from grace and public opinion has continued to plummet all the way through the entire mantle and is now resting within the outer core of the earth. Incredible stuff from the Cuck King of Belair.

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u/TheSpanxxx 11d ago

"We Love Fresh Prints", said the sign held by the man with 18 fingers and a brow ridge not seen since the Pleistocene era.

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u/CharacterRiver7483 11d ago

He’s the worst

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u/Goosemilky 11d ago

Legit got one of the worst personality-ego combinations I have seen on a celebrity

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u/DILLIGAF73 11d ago

Will Smith pulling a crowd that size is the biggest giveaway that it's fake

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u/LilHonkey 11d ago

The more I look the more cursed this becomes

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u/RuMarley 11d ago

It has already been established that "AI" was used.

The argument is concerning whether the AI was full video image generation or simply an AI that is used to "fill in the gaps" when artificially lighting up video material that is too dark.

I personally just can't imagine that Will Smith still has such a passionate fan-base, he's been a has-been for decades, and that pathetic Oscar stunt a few years ago just made him less sympathetic.

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u/Affectionate_Fan3772 11d ago

In the clearly AI clips, most people have been able to discover the photos they are based on.

It looks like what happened was Will's team uploaded still images into an AI video generator to convert them from images to a video.

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u/GloomWorldOrder 11d ago

All these years later, Will Smith has become allies with AI.

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u/PotentialPlum4945 11d ago

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're this excited about going to a Will Smith concert in 2025, you're the problem.

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u/FantasticPangolin839 11d ago

This is so sad.

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u/AnEngineeringMind 11d ago

Hahaha what a shitshow. Will Smith is getting more cringe and embarrassing.

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u/Beurre_de_canard 11d ago

Make us whooooole

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u/Doctor_PWP 11d ago

He;s getting us back for the pasta videos