USA males’s ice hockey player Brady Tkachuk has distanced himself from an AI-enhanced White House video during which he seems to disparage Canadians, saying “those words would never come out of my mouth”.
The video was printed on the official White House TikTok account after the US beat Canada on Sunday to win gold on the Winter Olympics and is marked as utilizing synthetic intelligence.
It encompasses a modified clip of Tkachuk talking at a information convention for final yr’s 4 Nations Face-Off, throughout which Canadians booed the US national anthem.
Tkachuk seems to say: “They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple-syrup-eating [expletive] a lesson. Canada, we own you little bro.”
Tkachuk is captain of the Ottawa Senators and after taking part in within the Canadian workforce’s first NHL sport because the Olympics, he stated: “Well, it’s clearly fake, because it’s not my voice, not my lips moving.
“I’m not answerable for any of these accounts,” he added. “I do know that these phrases would by no means come out of my mouth, so I am unable to do something about it.
“It’s not what I was saying. I would never say that. It’s not who I am. So I guess I don’t like that video.”
The White House has been contacted for a response.
