A nonetheless from Mariah Carey’s Spotify Wrapped video (above). Followers claimed the singer had used an AI-generated likeness of herself within the clip. Mariah Carey has dismissed claims that she used generative AI to make her Spotify Wrapped video, following accusations from social media customers. On Tuesday, Carey launched a video to thank followers who have been listed as her prime followers on Spotify Wrapped, an annual round-up of customers’ listening habits on the streaming platform for the final 12 months. Within the 20-second clip, Carey, who’s carrying pink lipstick and a Santa Claus-inspired outfit in a dimly lit set, tells followers: “Your help by the years is the best reward I might ask for,” Unhealthy lighting and a pink lip have you ever all pondering that is AI?? There’s a motive I’m not a fan of both of these issues! About to rejoice #Christmastime with my Boston #lambily! 💘💘💘 https://t.co/8guHlMMLSp — Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) December 6, 2024 Nonetheless, many social media customers reacted with suspicion to Carey’s video — with followers questioning whether or not the singer was actual or AI-generated within the footage based mostly on her look.
“This needs to be AI,” one consumer writes on X (the platform previously often called Twitter). In the meantime, one other fan equally doubted the singer’s authenticity within the video: “Not Mariah Carey’s Spotify message being AI. We’re so doomed.” Nonetheless, Carey has responded to the allegations on social media and denied that she used an AI-generated likeness of herself within the clip. As an alternative, the singer blamed her seeming AI-generated look on dangerous lighting on the set and her pink lipstick. “Unhealthy lighting and a pink lip have you ever all pondering that is AI?” Carey writes in response to a fan account that shared the video on X. “There’s a motive I’m not a fan of both of these issues.” this isn’t fking AI. she actually shot this after doing an entire photograph shoot and possibly filmed different promo slots whereas in costume pic.twitter.com/mLBfDNKIHM — 🎅🏾✨jamal’s cloud #merrychristmas30🎄 (@cloudzrollby) December 6, 2024 After Carey dismissed the allegations, a social media consumer used photographs to help the singer’s assertions that the video was actual and never AI-generated. The fan identified that the singer appeared to have filmed her Spotify Wrapped message on the identical day that she did a photograph shoot for her single All I Need for Christmas is You.
The fan says that Carey appears to have filmed the Spotify Wrapped video in an similar festive outfit and the identical set as this photograph shoot. Picture credit: Header photograph by way of Spotify/Mariah Carey.
