--- title: "Mariah Carey Denies That Her Holiday Video Is AI Slop, But We’re Not Convinced, for Obvious Reasons" description: "Christmas queen Mariah Carey has released her latest yuletide dispatch — and it looks a whole lot like it was made with AI." date: "2024-12-07" modified: "2024-12-07" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/mariah-cary-ai-spotify-wrapped" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" tags: - "ai video" - "celebrities" - "spotify" - "the digest" --- # Mariah Carey Denies That Her Holiday Video Is AI Slop, But We’re Not Convinced, for Obvious Reasons ![Christmas queen Mariah Carey has released her latest yuletide dispatch — and it looks a whole lot like it was made with AI.]() *\Image: Spotify / Futurism\* ## Wrap It Up Christmas queen [Mariah Carey]() has released her [latest yuletide dispatch]() — and it looks an *awful* lot like it was made with AI. As part of Spotify's annual "[Wrapped]()" campaign, which calculates users' top songs, the "All I Want For Christmas" singer provided a video to her top fans that appeared to show the star perching in front of a holiday tree while rocking some Santa-style red and white threads. https://www.twitter.com/chartmariah/status/1864312930902093941 The video, however, immediately felt off: the diva's lips didn't match up with her words, she was swaying strangely, and her perfectly-coiffed blonde hair was moving in peculiar ways. "I think \[it's\] AI," one commenter on the [r/popculturechat subreddit said of the video](). "The tone/inflection she is speaking in just really doesn't match anything else on screen. It sounds like a prerecorded message, especially when she says 'thank you soo much.'" Over on X-formerly-Twitter, where the video was posted by a fan account, folks had similar — if not more vulgar — takes. "No f\*cking way you people actually think \[that's\] not \[AI\]," [one user wrote](). "This queen is a pioneer," [another quipped](). "She has officially been uploaded to the cloud." ## Den-AI-l As AI speculation continued to spread, Carey took to X to issue a fiery rebuttal. "Bad lighting and a red lip have you all thinking this is AI??" [the seasonal diva wrote](). "There’s a reason I’m not a fan of either of those things!" Others also jumped to her defense, [claiming they could tell it was real]() "because you can see her eyes moving as she reads the script." "I don't know what's worse," [yet another X user wrote](), "the fact people think this is AI or the fact that it isn't and she genuinely sounds this monotonous." In the wake of Carey's official denial, we can't say for sure that the video was generated by AI — but consider us suspicious, even if that puts us on the naughty list. **More on AI Xmas:** [*Coke's AI Commercial for the Holidays Has Us Wondering If We Live In a Fallen World*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()