{"id":569437,"date":"2026-03-29T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/569437\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:41:08","slug":"dana-white-tells-anti-ai-ufc-fans-to-shut-the-f-k-up-and-watch-the-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/569437\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White tells anti-AI UFC fans to \u2018shut the f\u2014k up and watch the fights\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dana White doesn\u2019t want to hear any whining about the UFC\u2019s growing use of artificial intelligence to create promotional material for fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Since the Paramount+ deal kicked off at the start of 2026, fans have been noticing occasional UFC promos being aired on broadcasts that were clearly made with A.I. video generation tools. A recent example of this was a UFC Fight Night Seattle ad aired during UFC 326 that ended with a logo that everyone clocked as obvious A.I. slop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Following the Seattle card, a reporter at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-press-conference-video\/431902\/watch-ufc-seattle-post-fight-press-conference-live-stream-video-adesanya-vs-pyfer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post-fight press conference<\/a> asked Dana White about the use of A.I. by UFC and the negative fan reaction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cGive me a f&#8211;kin\u2019 break,\u201d White replied. \u201cA.I. is coming and if we\u2019re using A.I., who gives a s&#8211;t? People are upset about it? We should use artists? Who gives a s&#8211;t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">White initially cleared CBS \/ Paramount of having anything to do with the videos before admitting the network partner did occasionally make their own fight promos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt has nothing to do with Paramount,\u201d White said. \u201cParamount\u2019s not telling us how to run our production. We run production. Every time we change, we go from FOX to ESPN and then we go to Paramount, people are like \u2018Ah, ESPN\u2019s doing this and FOX is doing that and Paramount\u2014,\u2019 they\u2019re not doing anything. They have nothing to do with our production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThey do create some of their own spots for fights,\u201d he added. \u201cBut we do all our own \u2014 everything from the artwork to production to music, everything is done internally and always has been at UFC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHow bout this?\u201d he concluded. \u201cShut the f&#8211;k up and watch the fights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That may be White\u2019s official line on the subject but there is one sign that the promotion may not be as confident in its A.I. generated work as it is the stellar human-made promos for events. The amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O_kH2tMxy24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 326 B.M.F. Belt promo<\/a> that was made by UFC staff? It was prominently displayed on UFC\u2019s YouTube channel. The A.I. generated UFC Seattle promo and all other previous A.I. promos? Those are nowhere to be found online. You\u2019ll only find them through social media posts from angry fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White doesn\u2019t want to hear any whining about the UFC\u2019s growing use of artificial intelligence to create&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61,702],"class_list":["post-569437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}