The Hollywood actor and rapper<\/a>, 56, who is still facing backlash for the claimed AI video, shared a new video on Instagram<\/a> along with the caption: \u201cCrowd was poppin\u2019 tonite!!\u201d<\/p>\n It shows Smith onstage before the camera pans to the crowd, who all have computer-generated feline heads.<\/p>\n The comments were flooded with supportive comments, with one fan joking: \u201cHaters are gonna say this is AI\u201d while another wrote: \u201cI love the way Will handles these haters lmao.\u201d <\/p>\n A third joked: \u201cYa gotta be kitten me\u201d, while Roots drummer and documentary maker Questlove commented: \u201cThat scared me.\u201d<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Will Smith performing during his ‘Based On A True Story’ Summer Tour at Festhalle Frankfurt in Germany. He is now responding to claims about using AI. (Andreas Rentz\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n Smith kicked off the U.K. leg of his Based on a True Story tour<\/a> in Scarborough on August 24 in support of his recent album of the same name<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ahead of the concerts, a video was shared from his official YouTube channel,<\/a> titled: \u201cMy favorite part of tour is seeing you all up close. Thank you for seeing me too.\u201d<\/p>\n In the days that followed, the clip gained attention as viewers claimed it makes heavy use of AI for footage that seemingly shows his adoring fans crying and waving homemade signs. Some shots show audience members with their faces appearing blurred or distorted, while others seem to have oddly shaped hands, some of which appear to have six fingers.<\/p>\n Another shot shows a man\u2019s knuckle appear to blur along with his sign, which reads: \u201c\u2018You Can Make It\u2019 helped me survive cancer. THX Will.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the woman in front of him is seemingly holding his hand, but the headband of the woman behind her is somehow over her wrist.<\/p>\n Fans in the comments section of the YouTube video have called out the Fresh Prince of Bel Air star for showing what they branded a \u201cfake AI crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cImagine being this rich and famous and having to use AI footage of crowds\u2026 Tragic, man,\u201d one critic said.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n A woman’s headband seems to go over the wrist of the woman in front, while her own hand morphs into the man holding up a sign. (YouTube\/Will Smith)<\/p>\n Another wrote: \u201cSo not only is this an abomination to look at because it\u2019s low quality phone footage that\u2019s been heavily AI upscaled, but there\u2019s also in-between scenes that are clearly AI-generated,\u201d another said, citing timestamps where the alleged inconsistencies occurred.<\/p>\n \u201cVideographers exist, why abandon quality work for this degenerative slop?\u201d they questioned.<\/p>\n One fan remarked: \u201cI don’t want to be that guy but: You can see many people in the crowd having six fingers or more, eyes smudged, faces are distorted. Proving that certain (well, almost all clips that show the audience) are AI-generated.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHey [Will] these PR stunts are going nowhere,\u201d one fan said. \u201cWhat kind of sheeple do you think we are bro? You can\u2019t be this ignorant bruh c\u2019mon it\u2019s embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n Smith released his first album in two decades, Based on a True Story, in March this year. In a two-star review, The Independent <\/a>called him a \u201csolid rapper\u201d but criticized the frequently \u201chalf-baked, corny\u201d lyrics and \u201cvague, hackneyed platitudes about failure and redemption.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Will](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2225879803-(1).jpg\")
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