‘America’s Got Talent’ fans fooled by AI-Generated contestant’s sob story
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A video of an aging rocker named Michael Bennett performing a heart-tugging song on America’s Got Talent is eliciting powerful reactions around the globe. But the heavily tattooed musician with long white hair and thick silver rings on his fingers isn’t real. He’s AI-generated.
In one YouTube video making the rounds on social media, “Bennett” sings “After I’m Gone,” a tear-jerker of a ballad that conveys the pain of being ignored by his child. “You walk past everything I gave, like it was nothing at all,” the AI-generated musician sings while accompanying himself on electric guitar. “I gave you my whole life. You can’t give me one call.”
The gravelly voice sounds convincingly human, but a closer watch of the video suggests otherwise.
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