Overview
- The video on Smith’s official YouTube channel features crowd shots that users say show AI-style artifacts such as distorted faces, extra fingers and garbled signs like “FR6SH CRINCE.”
- The clip was posted ahead of the United Kingdom leg of his Based on a True Story tour, which opened in Scarborough, with a caption thanking fans and highlighting seeing them up close.
- Multiple outlets summarized the online scrutiny and quoted commenters alleging synthetic audience scenes, and The Independent said it requested comment from Smith’s representatives.
- Coverage notes the lack of independent forensic verification to date, even as some reports and commenters describe the AI usage as obvious based on visible inconsistencies.
- Public reaction ranges from accusing the promo of misleading, unlabeled AI to defending the footage as conventional editing errors, while the video remains online.