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Showing 9 profiles · 3 pro-AI · 6 anti-AI
Footballer
The most-followed person on Instagram put his money where his brand is: an equity stake in AI answer engine Perplexity in 2025 — even as scammers make him one of the most-deepfaked athletes on Earth.
Chess Grandmaster
The strongest female chess player in history came of age as engines conquered her sport. She urges schools to engage AI rather than fear it — while protecting the struggle that builds real intuition.
Football’s GOAT says he has never opened ChatGPT — yet he trained a licensed deepfake avatar for Lay’s in 2021 and became OpenAI’s first global partner as the face of ChatGPT’s 2026 World Cup campaign.
Professional tennis player
A former Grand Slam finalist who, after Wimbledon’s automated line-calling system malfunctioned and cost her a game in 2025, warned that tennis was “losing the charm” of human officials and being handed over to machines.
Professional basketball player
The WNBA star publicly condemned AI-generated explicit deepfake images of herself circulating online, calling the fabrications “crazy and weird” and drawing attention to the non-consensual use of the technology against female athletes.
NHL captain, Olympic gold medalist
The US Olympic hockey captain publicly disowned an AI-doctored video — posted by the White House’s official account — that put an anti-Canadian slur in his mouth, calling it “clearly fake” and words that would never come from him.
Professional tennis player, US Open champion
The 2021 US Open champion openly distrusted Wimbledon’s automated line-calling system in 2025, saying some of its calls were “dodgy” and that she did not trust the technology — drawing a public rebuke from the tournament’s chief.
The British No. 1 publicly doubted the accuracy of Wimbledon’s automated line-calling system in 2025, saying he did not believe it was “100 per cent accurate” and that its on-screen ball marks did not match the court.
Cricket legend
The most prolific run-scorer in cricket history publicly condemned a deepfake video that used his face and cloned voice to promote a gaming app, calling the misuse of the technology “disturbing.”
