The real Scarlett Johansson decries 'misuse of AI' by a deepfake video shaming Kanye West

Scarlett Johansson, Steven Spielberg, Adam Sandler and respective different Jewish celebrities assembled successful matching T-shirts to shame Ye (formerly Kanye West) for his latest antisemitic outbursts — astatine slightest that’s what a self-proclaimed “generative AI expert” fantasized this week.

Israel-based creator and selling nonrecreational Ori Bejerano connected Tuesday published a black-and-white video connected societal media featuring the personage deepfakes wearing the aforesaid achromatic T-shirt emblazoned with a achromatic outline of a mediate digit supra the connection “Kanye.”

The plan — intelligibly riffing disconnected Ye’s caller swastika merchandise — besides features the Star of David wrong the outline. The artificial intelligence-generated humans don’t talk but motion casually arsenic a creation remix of Jewish people opus “Hava Nagila” plays.

Bejerano’s video besides lifts the likenesses of actors Jerry Seinfeld, “Friends” stars David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow, Jack Black, Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mila Kunis and Ben Stiller. Among the different high-profile names (and faces) deepfaked for the video are Lenny Kravitz, Adam Levine, Drake, Mark Zuckerberg, Sacha Baron Cohen and Woody Allen.

Near the extremity of the minute-long post, an AI rendering of “50 First Dates” prima Sandler flashes a mediate digit and smiles. The video concludes with the declaration, “Enough is Enough.”

“Join the combat against antisemitism,” the clip adds.

In his societal media captions, Bejerano condemned the rapper-entrepreneur for his latest nationalist clasp of Nazism. He besides called for much nationalist enactment against antisemitism.

However, not everyone was a instrumentality of Bejerano’s AI-driven societal media campaign. Johansson, whose likeness opens the viral video, spoke retired against the “misuse of AI” successful a connection shared with The Times connected Wednesday.

“It has been brought to my attraction by household members and friends, that an AI-generated video featuring my likeness, successful effect to an antisemitic view, has been circulating online and gaining traction. I americium a Jewish pistillate who has nary tolerance for antisemitism oregon hatred code of immoderate kind,” she wrote.

“But I besides firmly judge that the imaginable for hatred code multiplied by AI is simply a acold greater menace than immoderate 1 idiosyncratic who takes accountability for it. We indispensable telephone retired the misuse of AI, nary substance its messaging, oregon we hazard losing a clasp connected reality.”

She added: “I person unluckily been a precise nationalist unfortunate of AI, but the information is that the menace of AI affects each and each 1 of us.”

“Black Widow” and “Her” prima Johansson publically condemned the usage of artificial quality past year. In May 2024 she hired a ineligible squad aft discovering OpenAI had released a ChatGPT voice that sounded eerily akin to hers without gaining her permission. The growing popularity of AI continues to loom implicit Hollywood, much than a twelvemonth aft actors and writers expressed their concerns during the dual strikes of 2023.

Johansson successful her connection besides called for much authorities oversight of AI.

“There is simply a 1000 ft question coming regarding AI that respective progressive countries, not including the United States, person responded to successful a liable manner,” the Oscar-nominated “Jojo Rabbit” prima wrote. “It is terrifying that the US authorities is paralyzed erstwhile it comes to passing authorities that protects each of its citizens against the imminent dangers of AI.”

She concluded her missive: “I impulse the US authorities to marque the passing of authorities limiting AI usage a apical priority; it is simply a bipartisan contented that enormously affects the contiguous aboriginal of humanity astatine large.”

Celebrities including Taylor Swift, Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman besides person had their likenesses and voices ripped disconnected via artificial quality successful caller years.

Bejerano did not instantly reply to The Times erstwhile contacted via Facebook connected Wednesday.

Times unit writer Wendy Lee contributed to this report.