White House use of AI puts words in mouth of U.S.

Blame AI or the White House social media worker who put controversial, profane words in the mouth of U.S. Olympic males’s hockey star Brady Tkachuk.

Either approach, Tkachuk doesn’t recognize the doctored video printed Sunday on the official White House TikTok account that made it seem he was disparaging Canadians in the aftermath of the stirring U.S. gold medal victory at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.

Tkachuk’s day job, you see, is star participant and crew captain of the NHL Ottawa Senators.

The video options footage from a year-old news convention, besides that Tkachuk’s words are freshened through AI. With U.S. Olympics objective music “Free Bird” enjoying in the background, 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 included a disclaimer that it used AI-generated media. After it had been considered by more than 12 million people, Tkachuk indicated the stunt aggravated him.

“Well, it’s clearly fake, because it’s not my voice, not my lips moving,” he said Thursday in Ottawa. “It’s not my voice. It’s not what I was saying. I would never say that.

“That’s not who I am, so I guess I don’t like that video because that would never come out of my mouth, and I never had that thought.”

In its efforts to have fun the U.S. victory, the White House has come off as tone deaf to many of the gamers. Sportsmanship and maturity appear less important than disparaging Canadians.

The U.S. gamers have made it abundantly clear that they respect their Canadian brethren. Several U.S. gamers — including Tkachuk— play for NHL groups north of the border.

And the boys’s gamers admire the U.S. Olympics ladies’s hockey crew that also gained gold despite their spontaneous laughter at President Trump’s attempt at humor during his congratulatory call.

Trump invited the boys’s crew to the State of the Union tackle, saying: “I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the women’s team, you do know that,” including with a giggle that if he didn’t also invite the ladies, “I do believe I probably would be impeached.”

It was as if the president was speaking to third graders afraid they could get cooties from the women. Tkachuk explained the fantastic relationship between the boys’s and ladies’s Olympics gamers while expressing remorse at the laughter.

“[We’re] just coming off the ice, and I think it was 15 minutes later, you have the President of the United States calling you,” Tkachuk told reporters Thursday. “You just can’t really believe, you’re still riding the high of being a world champion, and for the President to take the time and call.

“When it comes to the women’s team, one of my favorite memories from the Olympics is after we won and after the women’s team came back from the closing ceremonies, both our teams are just in the dining hall hanging out having fun, just kind of being on top of the world.

“You have two gold medalist teams just hanging out before we’re going back to our respective cities. And it was just great to hear their experience.”