{"id":845696,"date":"2026-08-04T11:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/845696\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:22:23","slug":"mario-lopez-sparks-backlash-with-ai-video-of-niece-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/845696\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Lopez Sparks Backlash With AI Video of Niece Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mario Lopez<\/a> is raising eyebrows after he shared a truly bizarre AI video featuring his niece Kalia Wong eating hot dogs at a baseball game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t take my niece anywhere!\u201d Lopez, 52, captioned the video, shared via X on Sunday, August 2. (The video has since been deleted.)<\/p>\n

In the video, Lopez and Wong, 19, can be seen sitting at Dodger Stadium. Two AI-generated hot dogs covered in mustard and relish appear in Wong\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t take her anywhere,\u201d an AI version of Lopez exclaimed while a faux Wong took a bite of both the computerized hot dogs as mustard splattered everywhere.<\/p>\n

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\n Related: Alex Vesia’s Wife Reacts to Fans Putting Late Baby Girl’s Name on Jerseys<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLos Angeles Dodgers pitcher Alex Vesia\u2019s wife, Kayla Vesia, is reacting to fans putting their late baby girl\u2019s name on their baseball jerseys following the infant\u2019s tragic death. \u201cI don\u2019t like it. They have no right,\u201d Kayla, 29, responded to a fan who asked about the trend via a comment on her TikTok video on [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n

After the AI version of Wong made a mess, the fake version of Lopez and the man sitting next to them both exclaimed, \u201cOh my God! Look at you!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAh, so good!\u201d the AI version of Wong said. The faux Lopez responded, \u201cYou\u2019re a mess! The mustard!\u201d<\/p>\n

The video ended with a close-up of Wong\u2019s face as she continued to wipe mustard all over her face.<\/p>\n

At the bottom of Lopez\u2019s video, it states it was made with Grok Image, X\u2019s AI image and video generator.<\/p>\n

Lopez\u2019s video went viral shortly after the video was posted, sparking instant backlash for what many felt was sexually suggestive content.<\/p>\n

\u201cUhhhh, what a creepy video for Mario Lopez to create using AI and then post \u2026 Especially since the subject is his niece!\u201d journalist Yashar Ali wrote via X<\/a>, resharing the video to his own feed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so confused what the f*** was this, till i realized this is his ACTUAL niece, and this is a video he generated showing her double stuffing two hot dogs in a weird fetishy way,\u201d another social media user wrote. \u201cMario lopez making weird incest ai slop def not on my bingo card this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lopez has not publicly addressed the backlash. Us has reached out to him for comment.<\/p>\n

In addition to the AI video, Lopez shared a real clip<\/a> featuring the uncle and niece at the baseball game on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tTikTok was flooded with deepfake videos of YouTuber and pro boxer Jake Paul seemingly coming out as gay in October 2025. The ultra-realistic deepfakes \u2014 which were created using OpenAI\u2019s video generation model Sora \u2014 depicted the boxer draped in an LGTBQ+ Pride flag or dancing ballet in a tutu, all while encouraging viewers to [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n

\u201cHotter than a Dodger dog on the grill out here but the Dodgers might be even hotter. Big moves,\u201d the actor told the camera. \u201cLet\u2019s go Skubal. Big expectations and I\u2019m all in for this postseason push. Let\u2019s do it up. I\u2019m here with my niece Kalia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite deleting the original video, social media users commented on Lopez\u2019s real, non-AI video instead, calling him out for the previously shared AI slop.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine you think you\u2019re having a nice outing with your uncle, only to see he created a weird ahh ai video of you,\u201d one user responded while another replied, \u201cWhat a nice, normal video. Surely you didn\u2019t post AI f***ing loser garbage after this that sexualizes your niece you f***ing LOSER.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mario Lopez is raising eyebrows after he shared a truly bizarre AI video featuring his niece Kalia Wong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,3332,362,82219,46498,1942,61],"class_list":["post-845696","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-celebrity","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-scandals","tag-scandals","tag-social-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845696","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=845696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}