AI Tupac Video Called Out By Concerned Fans: “Disturbing And Disrespectful”

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has several pros and cons, but a newly-surfaced video of Tupac has fans ready to boycott the technology.

In the video, the late rapper is shopping in Target with “fans” asking for a few pictures. “Y’all really gonna follow me through the lotion aisle, huh?” he says. Despite many still boycotting Target, most of the commenters were equally distressed.

One person described the video as “so disturbing and disrespectful!” Another teased, “I know some auntie on Facebook fell for this video saying PAC alive…AI is scary man.” Someone else wrote, “If they are confident enough to release this type of technology to the public…. Just imagine what else they got behind the scenes.”

AI Pac comes in the midst of fake videos and photos of other public figures including Michael Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr. making rounds online.

Back in May, Snoop Dogg admitted he was against the idea of collaborating with an AI-version of the slain rapper. He told Okayplayer, “When we made records, we sat next to each other. We didn’t battle each other, but we was on each other’s head like, ‘Say some dope s**t,’ and then go in the booth, and he’s in there cheering me on, and I’m cheering him on.’ AI can’t give you that s**t. That n***a’s a robot.”

Coincidentally, it was Snoop who performed with a hologram of Pac at Coachella back in 2012.

Back then, the now CEO of Death Row Records and Dr. Dre joked about taking the hologram Tupac out on tour. TMZ reported that Dre had to request permission from Pac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, to use the hologram and as a thank you, he donated to the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, which is currently ran by Pac’s sister following Afeni’s death in 2016.