Brittoni O'myah Sinclair, one of the actors who appeared in Nintendo's recent My Mario adverts, has denied the accusations that the photoshoot is AI-generated.
Late last year, Nintendo announced My Mario, a line of Super Mario products specifically aimed at younger children, including an app, wooden building blocks, and more. Although the collection was initially only available in Japan, Nintendo of America recently confirmed that My Mario is launching in the US next month.
A child-friendly range of Mario products is only fairly interesting on its own, but all of the air was taken out of the room when Nintendo of America was accused of using generative AI for its My Mario advertisements. While an oddly-shaped thumb screamed AI to a lot of people, one of the photoshoot's actors has fought back against the claims.
Shortly after the My Mario adverts were shared and quickly raised eyebrows for allegedly using AI, Nintendo issued a response to confirm that AI wasn't used in the photoshoots. It wasn't the only one to deny the use of AI, though, as one of the actors for the My Mario adverts took the time to reply to the post on Instagram and...
