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Videographers Claim ASAP Rocky Used AI to Rip Off Their Work
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Videographers Claim ASAP Rocky Used AI to Rip Off Their Work

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The clip that appears in ASAP Rocky’s video, left, and the original clip filmed in 2019, right.

ASAP Rocky has been accused of using AI to directly steal the work of two video artists and a parkour athlete for his latest music video.

The video for Shroom Clouds shows a brief sequence (about 2:56) where the rapper is somersaulting through a kaleidoscopic effect.

But that six-second segment is identical to a 2019 Instagram video that was made by creative director and VFX artist Cache Bunny.

The striking similarity was pointed out by Emonee LaRussa ( @em0n33y on Instagram). “There is practically no difference: the grass is the same, the shadows are the same,” says LaRussa, who asks, “At what point does AI-generated content cross the line into copyright infringement?”

The original clip is actual footage of parkour athlete Jason Paul that was filmed on a 360-degree camera and later transformed into artistic footage.

“I was quite surprised to see how similar his version was,” Paul says of ASAP’s video .…

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