Brady Tkachuk miffed over White House AI-doctored video
Brady Tkachuk celebrates a 2-1 victory against Canada in overtime for the gold medal at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games last month. After the win, The White House posted an AI-dubbed fake video that literally put words in Tkachuk’s mouth. Photo by Elsa/Getty Images
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Brady Tkachuk, the Ottawa Senators captain and a Team USA gold medalist, said he didn't appreciate the AI-doctored video released by the White House that made it appear he was disparaging Canadians.
The video, published Sunday by the White House's official TikTok account, featured doctored footage from a Tkachuk brothers' news conference at the 4 Nations Face-Off last February. While "Free Bird," the goal song for Team USA, played in the background of the video, Brady Tkachuk was made to say, "They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple syrup eating f---s a lesson."
The clip, which discloses that it used AI-generated media, has 11.1 million views on TikTok and has been widely viewed on other social media platforms.
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