USA men’s ice hockey player Brady Tkachuk has distanced himself from an AI-enhanced White House video in which he appears to disparage Canadians, saying “those words would never come out of my mouth”.<\/p>\n
The video was published on the official White House TikTok account after the US beat Canada on Sunday<\/a> to win gold at the Winter Olympics and is marked as using artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n It features a modified clip of Tkachuk speaking at a news conference for last year’s 4 Nations Face-Off, during which Canadians booed the US national anthem.<\/a><\/p>\n Tkachuk appears to say: “They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple-syrup-eating [expletive] a lesson. Canada, we own you little bro.”<\/p>\n Tkachuk is captain of the Ottawa Senators and after playing in the Canadian team’s first NHL game since the Olympics, he said: “Well, it’s clearly fake, because it’s not my voice, not my lips moving.<\/p>\n “I’m not in control of any of those accounts,” he added. “I know that those words would never come out of my mouth, so I can’t do anything about it.<\/p>\n “It’s not what I was saying. I would never say that. It’s not who I am. So I guess I don’t like that video.”<\/p>\n Several of Tkachuk’s team-mates have also apologised for laughing during a congratulatory call from Donald Trump, when the US president said he “probably would be impeached” if he did not invite the gold-winning women’s team as well as the men to his State of the Union address .<\/p>\n