‘It's clearly fake': Olympic hockey star disavows AI-generated White House video

"It's not my voice, not my lips moving," he said.

Brady Tkachuk is the captain of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators, who ply their trade in the capital of the Great North. | Elsa/Getty Images

Brady Tkachuk, a bruising winger on the American Olympic men’s ice hockey team, was none too pleased with an AI-generated video the White House released on social media this weekend that appeared to show him criticizing Canada.

The video featured Tkachuk, who plays for the National Hockey League’s Ottawa Senators full time, calling the Canadian team “maple syrup eating f----s” in a press conference, before cutting to highlights from the gold medal match of the Olympics, which saw the U.S. men’s team take down Canada by a 2-1 score in overtime. The White House bleeped the AI-generated profanity in the video.

Tkachuk made it clear he didn’t condone the language in the video.

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