The Toronto Tempo fired back at a fan who claimed that the team\u00a0used AI to create social media content.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With Canada’s first WNBA franchise set to embark on its inaugural season next month, the team is working overtime to grow its brand in\u00a0the country. It will be a monumental moment for women’s sports in Canada, and the Tempo are already making it clear to new fans that they always put in the work and never take the lazy way out.<\/p>\n
One X user accused the team of using AI to generate art for the team’s International Women’s Day post, calling it\u00a0“AI trash. But the Tempo’s official account wasn’t having it, and fired back at the fan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Put some respect on our designer’s name, absolutely not,” The Tempo replied.\u00a0<\/p>\n
put some respect on our designer\u2019s name, absolutely not<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n The post in question featured a drawing of a young girl and her mother watching a Tempo game on a bed in a room filled with merchandise from other Toronto-based women’s sports teams, such as the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was a post meant to highlight the importance of female representation in the sporting world, but it also ended up highlighting an artist.\u00a0<\/p>\n See her, be her.<\/p>\n Happy International Women’s Day \ud83e\ude75 pic.twitter.com\/foUWApiJHp<\/a><\/p>\n
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