Ozzy Osbourne death: AI video of rocker in heaven played at Rod Stewart concert
An unsettling AI trend has emerged in the wake of two major celebrity deaths.
Late stars are being re-animated back to life in unsettling Artificial Intelligence videos that are leaving fans and family members distraught and confused.
In the most recent incident on July 29, rock singer Rod Stewart played AI videos of the late Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne in heaven at his concert in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Watch the video above.
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Osborne, who died on July 22, was pictured posing with other late celebrities like Prince, Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, Amy Winehouse, Tupac, Kurt Cobain and more.
Fans were left baffled by the video that played on a loop at the concert, with one fan taking to Instagram saying it was “beyond comprehension.”
“Yes the rumors are true: I went to a Rod Stewart concert last night and witnessed man-made horrors beyond my comprehension,” they wrote.
“This is the craziest, most disrespectful sh-t I have ever seen in my life.”
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Other Instagram users were quick to comment about the bizarre video.
“How about we just dig their corpses up and make them walk around it’s just as ghastly,” another added under the post.
“This is a crime that should be prosecuted to the fullest extent,” a third comment reads.
“I hate these AI videos that show fake videos of people. Someone made some of some of our family members that have passed away and I just find it creepy,” another comment says.
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Local newspaper the Charlotte Observer, reported Stewart made a speech to accompany the video, saying: “Very sad. A lot of those people died cause of drugs.”
He apparently made the comment while looking at the video before adding, “I’m still here, though!”
This isn’t the first time this has happened.
After Julian McMahon died last month, similar AI-generated tribute pictures and videos featuring the Australian actor emerged online.
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McMahon’s Charmed Co-Star Alyssa Milano took to Instagram, begging fans to stop making and posting the AI videos.
“Charmed fans/accounts! I love and appreciate you so much but please stop using AI to fabricate emotion from Julian McMahon’s death,” she wrote.
“It is totally unnecessary when there are real moments you can use from his nearly 35 years in the public eye.”
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“Please be considerate to Julian’s grieving family and friends during this difficult time.”
The trend first emerged with X user Min Choi creating AI videos of deceased celebrities using Grok-2, the app’s built-in AI.
The thread included AI videos of dozens of deceased celebrities reuniting with their living family members and other celebrities, sparking global outrage.
The videos included Prince William and Prince Harry sitting beside their mother, Princess Diana.
Freddie Mercury is pictured with Brian May.
Steve and Bindi Irwin were even included in the thread, with one user commenting: “This is so f….d up man.”
“Her dad died, if she sees this can you imagine the emotion? Take it down, delete it please,” one comment said.
Another said: “You should take these down. Very disrespectful.”
The AI videos were called “Evil” and received intense backlash.
It seems the trend has continued, and will only get more realistic as AI gets better.
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