{"id":623098,"date":"2026-04-22T07:53:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623098\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:53:30","slug":"renato-moicano-slams-ufcs-disrespectful-use-of-ai-in-recent-promos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623098\/","title":{"rendered":"Renato Moicano slams UFC&#8217;s &#8216;disrespectful&#8217; use of AI in recent promos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC star Renato Moicano isn\u2019t happy with CEO Dana White\u2019s recent defense of the promotion\u2019s recent use of AI for marketing purposes.<\/p>\n<p>UFC CEO Dana White and the promotion were in hot water when they released their latest promo ahead of UFC Freedom 250 at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>During the UFC 327 broadcast, a pre-fight promo aired featuring Ilia Topuria, Alex Pereira, and several other fighters scheduled to appear at the unprecedented event. The problem: all of the fighters featured in the advertisement were generated by Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>This led many to criticize White and the UFC for refusing to hire an in-person staff to produce pre-fight promo material, and questioned the promotion\u2019s potential future use of AI. In response, White dismissed criticism, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-upset-after-being-grilled-about-ai-use-in-ufc-promos-give-me-a-f-break\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saying he \u2018doesn\u2019t give a s***\u2019 about critics<\/a> of the UFC\u2019s controversial promo.<\/p>\n<p>One UFC star, Renato Moicano, took a surprising stance against his employers and their use of AI.<\/p>\n<p>Renato Moicano: UFC\u2019s AI use for promos \u2018disrespectful to the fans\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/kiFzwMLK8Uw?si=x9gETkEPD3EUTXhC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Ariel Helwani Show<\/a>, Moicano was asked about the controversial UFC White House promo and didn\u2019t hold back.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw it, and I didn\u2019t like it at all. UFC\u2019s not going to be very happy for me to say that, but I didn\u2019t like it. I think that\u2019s disrespectful towards the fans, because I\u2019m a fan myself,\u201d Moicano said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can\u2019t put Alex Pereira or Ilia Topuria on an airplane and put them in Washington D.C., in front of the White House, I think that\u2019s sloppy. I don\u2019t like to use AI on my stuff at all. I\u2019m not saying it doesn\u2019t help for some stuff, but not for content [purposes].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople can see when it\u2019s sloppy, and that\u2019s brain-rotting everybody right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moicano is fresh off a win over Chris Duncan at the UFC Apex and is targeting a return to the Octagon this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Renato Moicano\u2019s stance? Let us know in the comments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC star Renato Moicano isn\u2019t happy with CEO Dana White\u2019s recent defense of the promotion\u2019s recent use of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,958,786,785,73023,85,787,263470],"class_list":{"0":"post-623098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dana-white","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-renato-moicano","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc","16":"tag-ufc-freedom-250"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}