If you grew up listening to “Big Willie Style” on repeat, then you understand the hype around Will Smith. So when the Fresh Prince himself shared a concert video on YouTube, people were surprised to see claims that it’s AI-generated. The claims came on TikTok when a user shared the video on that platform, and the screenshots people captured are hard to ignore.
It’s a little unclear why Smith would need to make fake concert videos. As a singer known literally worldwide, it makes little sense for him to even need to do that.
But, whether you believe he is capable of trying to sell fans on fake concert footage or not, there is no denying how off it all looks. Honestly, it’s almost painful how AI-generated some of the shots appear to be, and the TikTok users who took screenshots prove that.
There’s no way Will Smith’s concert is not AI.
@acjunior72 WILL SMITH'S CONCERT VIDEO SPARKS CLAIMS OF AI-GENERATED CROWDS – This will be the funniest sh*t I will see today…and it's not even close. Will….what did you do????!!! Holy hell, at least make an attempt to make these people look real, not nightmare fuel FFS! 🤣 #willsmith #willsmithai #aivideo #artificialintelligence #concert #AI #willsmithconcert #nightmarefuel #WTF #computergenerated #fail ♬ original sound – AC Junior
In June 2025, Smith embarked on a tour across numerous cities and countries outside of the United States. The concert clip he posted on YouTube is, presumably, from that tour. It was also a way to promote his shows.
And honestly, all of that is totally fine. The issue that the internet has is the fact that a lot of people believe it is almost entirely AI-generated.
“You can tell just by how they move,” one user on TikTok pointed out. “Watch that kid with the hat when his head moves. It’s doing that weird bobble movement that AI does.”
Someone else wrote, “You can freeze any frame of the damn crowd and see abominable horrors beyond human comprehension. Amazing.”
Some of the concert footage seems legit, like the shots of Smith on-stage with a microphone and concert-goers in the audience hanging on his every word. But then things get weird.
There are some posters with incorrect spellings, and if you pause the footage at almost any given moment past the 30 second mark in the video posted on YouTube, you can find something just a little off.
Some of the faces in the footage seem computer-generated and placed in while it was edited. Other faces are downright distorted. And, for some reason, a lot of the potentially AI-generated audience members seem to be reacting to Smith’s singing as though they are attending an emotional vigil rather than a concert.
“Will Smith is not pulling crowds that big anymore, let’s be real here,” someone commented on the TikTok. “He definitely needs AI to make the crowd seem bigger.”
Another critic of the singer wrote, “It’s not AI. The crowd asked for their faces to be blurred ’cause they don’t want anyone finding out they went to a Will Smith concert.”
Smith has not addressed the claims on his personal TikTok account, but it should be noted he did not share that video there, and instead kept it on YouTube. Unfortunately for him, other users shared it on TikTok and discussed the theories about how much AI content was included in the edit.
It is entirely possible that footage from Smith’s actual concerts was thrown into the edit too. But there are far too many off-putting shots in the video. It’s hard to totally discredit those who claim his concert video is AI-generated.
