Nicki Minaj wants to delete ‘whole internet’ after seeing deepfake video of her and Tom Holland
Topics: Celebrity, Nicki Minaj, Tom Holland, Technology, Film and TV
Jess Hardiman
Featured Image Credit: ITVX/SBS Viceland
Topics: Celebrity, Nicki Minaj, Tom Holland, Technology, Film and TV
Nicki Minaj said she wants to delete the ‘whole internet’ after seeing a deepfake video of her and Tom Holland.
You may have seen a fake viral video doing the rounds that shows Minaj, 40, apparently shacked up with Holland, 27 – despite the fact she’s married to Kenny Petty, who she wed in 2019.
“We had just got back from our honeymoon,” Holland, who is decked out in a tropical shirt and matching shorts, says in the bizarre clip.
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“Our homecoming.”
Minaj – also wearing the same getup – then says: “Tom drops his bags, and then I started following right behind him like this.”
She sways about behind him, before Holland goes on: “First thing I noticed was this horrible sort of boiled egg smell. Ugh.”
Minaj says they ‘started entering into the house’ to find out what the smell was, and then they saw someone spread out on their sofa.
The intruder turned out to be their next door neighbour, Mark Zuckerberg, who had ‘somehow found his way into their home’.
The clip then cuts to newlyweds Holland and Minaj, this time in matching pink tracksuits sitting on a sofa.
“It was so strange,” Holland says.
“I’d not said more than ‘Hi’ or ‘Hello’ to this bloke. Now he’s on my bloody sofa.”
The bizarre interview is, of course, a deepfake – which unsettled Minaj as much as it did us.
Responding to the footage on Twitter, she wrote: “HELP!!! What in the AI shapeshifting cloning conspiracy theory is this?!?!!
“I hope the whole internet get deleted!!!”
The clip turns out to have been created for an ITVX programmed called Deep Fake Neighbour Wars, which aired earlier this year in the UK and appears to have resurfaced via Aussie TV channel SBS Viceland.
Produced by Tiger Aspect, part of Banijay UK, the six-part series was billed as ‘the world's first long form narrative show that uses Deep Fake technology’, following the premise of famous celebrities embroiled in petty neighbour disputes.
“It uses the very latest in AI technology to turn the UK's best new impressionists into the world's most famous celebrities – only here they are ordinary people who happen to be embroiled in petty silly neighbour disputes,” a press release from ITV said.
Along with Minaj, Holland and Zuckerberg, other celebrity deepfakes included the likes of Kim Kardashian, Ariana Grande, Idris Elba and Greta Thunberg.