{"id":743731,"date":"2026-06-17T23:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743731\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T23:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:29:08","slug":"korn-taking-heat-online-for-using-ai-mock-ups-during-blind-bag-keychain-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743731\/","title":{"rendered":"Korn taking heat online for using AI mock ups during blind bag keychain launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Korn are facing criticism over an alleged use of AI in promotional images for their latest Issues-themed merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>The band recently launched a blind-box series of four plush keychain dolls inspired by the alternate covers of their 1999 album Issues. However, fans on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Korn\/comments\/1u8gy1i\/removed_by_moderator\/\">Reddit<\/a> quickly pointed to misspellings and garbled text in the product box mockups featured on Korn&#8217;s official store, leading to accusations that the images were AI-generated.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear whether those errors appear on the physical packaging or were limited to the online mockups. The controversy arrives amid continued backlash over the use of AI in music-related artwork and merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>View the merch drop <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/store.kornofficial.com\/products\/issues-doll-keychain-blind-box\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Korn are facing criticism over an alleged use of AI in promotional images for their latest Issues-themed merchandise.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,2526,37889,2525,2527,341,44],"class_list":["post-743731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-hardcore","tag-korn","tag-lambgoat","tag-metal","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743731","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=743731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}