Jay Williams is very angry about people sharing AI-generated videos mocking Tiger Woods on social media. However, the response to his rant about it probably didn’t go quite the way he had hoped it would.
With Rory McIlroy becoming the first golfer to win back-to-back Masters since Tiger Woods did in 2001 and 2002, the comparisons between the two champions are inevitable.
Another thing that appears to be inevitable these days is the proliferation of AI-generated content on the internet.
Mix the two together, and there has been no shortage of fake videos that look both real and funny involving Woods and McIlroy.
Jay Williams wants social media platforms to remove the AI-generated Tiger Woods videos
“Mocking Tiger Woods with AI isn’t entertainment it’s exploitation,” Jay Williams wrote on X. “Add stolen PGA and CBS footage and it becomes theft. That’s a real man, with real kids, and a real family. Platforms need to take it down. Now.”
Naturally, because the internet is going to internet, one of the top comments on Jay Williams’ X post is an AI-generated video. In it, Tiger Woods drives like a maniac down one of the fairways, going full General Lee over one of the hills with his SUV coming to a rest on its side, interrupting Rory McIlroy as he receives his green jacket. The video then shows Woods crawling out of the SUV, running up to McIlroy with a bottle of booze and shouting at the crowd.
Another response to Williams’ comment about Tiger Woods is a different AI-generated video of Woods and John Daly speeding down a golf course and launching their cart into the air.
Almost no on agreed with Jay Williams’ take
Numerous people also shared several AI-generated images in the comments, along with dozens of others calling out Jay Williams for having his priorities mixed up.
“Jay I’ve been saying that’s the biggest crime of all of this – not the life threatening driving – the footage theft,” read one comment, while another read, “Won’t someone think of the networks???”
“He puts real men, real kids, and real families in danger every time he gets behind the wheel under the influence, maybe some public humiliation will push him to change,” another person wrote. “Cry somewhere else, Jay.”
“Real men don’t flip there [sic] cars under the influence in residential neighborhoods,” read another comment, echoing many others.
“Save it,” someone else commented. “These silly AI videos mock other real people with real families thousands of times a day regrettably. But you don’t speak for them, you just defend a fellow entitled athlete.”