Will Smith criticized his rap comeback: his new album Floppt and fan videos from his concerts work AI manipulated.
It doesn’t seem to be going very well for Will Smith: 20 years after Lost and Found, his new album Based on a True Story came out in March 2025 and did not even make it into the Billboard top 200 charts. Some have not even noticed from his release, which should explain why the concerts of the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” are not regularly sold out. At least that’s how it looks, because Smith has recently been faced with allegations of the AI generation of fan videos.
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The 56-year-old Hollywood star has been on tour for a few days, it is almost his big rap comeback. Now he posted videos of his live shows, in which his audience with AI-generated content … seems to be increased.
While it works for individual settings as if the team from Will Smith had only used artificial intelligence to afterwards to raise real recordings afterwards, other shots seem completely generated. For example, when some spectators: hold up a “Lov u fr6eh prince” sign or suddenly materialize a woman’s arm. Some recordings show crying fans with blurred or distorted faces, while other strangely shaped hands or superfluous fingers have.
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A particularly enthusiastically commented video shows a man who carries a shield on the standing that “You can make it” helped him to overcome his cancer – but his fingerknoods seem to be blurred with the shield.
The internet makes fun of the actor and musician in the comments under the video – especially because he writes under the videos on Instagram: “My favorite moment on tour is to see you all up close. Thank you for seeing me too”. The irony is on the AI generated hand.
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Some attest to the star but also the low point of his career or title him as “poor”. The fans remain friendlier under his Instagram post and express their joy on the tour or congratulate him on his comeback. Will Smith himself and his team have not yet commented on the allegations.
Based on a True Story should actually mark his big return. During the recordings, Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z were even advised. So far, however, he has not achieved great success or in the reviews.