A fake AI-generated video of Justin Timberlake drinking beer amid his DWI arrest has shocked fans.
The video – created by visual designer Edmond Yang – animates the star’s now famous mugshot to show Timberlake waving, drinking a beer and staring deeply into the camera.
Yang wrote: ‘We’ve come to a state we can easily fake video REALLY easy now. Look at the hands, where do go from here?’
The eerie faked video quickly sent fans reeling with one writing: ‘I’ve got a bad feeling about this.’
Others wrote: ‘This is crazy bro!’, ‘This s**t is getting too good. We need to shut it down’ and ‘What the f**k.’
A fake AI-generated video of Justin Timberlake drinking beer amid his DWI arrest has shocked fans
The video – created by visual designer Edmond Yang – animates the star’s now famous mugshot (pictured) to show the star waving, drinking a beer and staring deeply into the camera
Another wrote: ‘The fingers on his right hand turn into threads when he holds up the glass so I think we’re still good for now’ and ‘I’ve got a bad feeling about this.’
Justin was arrested on June 18 about 12:30 when a Sag Harbor Village Police Department officer stopped him in the village in New York’s Hamptons after he allegedly ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane while driving a 2025 BMW X7, according to a court document.
‘His eyes were bloodshot and glassy, a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath, he was unable to divide attention, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady afoot and he performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests,’ the court papers said.
This is going to ruin the tour,’ the star is said to have muttered.
The New York officer – who was too young to recognize Timberlake – asked, ‘What tour?’ only to be told: ‘The world tour.’
The so-called ‘Prince of Pop’ told the officer he had one martini and was following some friends home, according to the documents. After being arrested and taken to a police station in nearby East Hampton, he refused a breath test, said the court papers, which listed his occupation as ‘professional’ and said he’s ‘self-employed.’
The 10-time Grammy winner was released without bond later in the morning after being arraigned in Sag Harbor. He was charged with a driving-while-intoxicated misdemeanor, and his next court date was scheduled for July 26, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office said.
A bartender at the hotel confirmed to People that the singer only consumed one drink before the arrest.
The video – created by visual designer Edmond Yang – animates the star’s now famous mugshot to show the star waving, drinking a beer and staring deeply into the camera
Yang wrote: ‘We’ve come to a state we can easily fake video REALLY easy now. Look at the hands, where do go from here?’
The star was seen pulling strange expressions in the faked video
Creator Yang kicked off a debate in the comments about AI
Justin Timberlake fans recently trolled the star over his DWI arrest as he proudly plugged merchandise for his Forget Tomorrow world tour on Tuesday
Justin and wife Jessica Biel, shown in May 2022, have been married since 2012
Another employee told the publication: ‘If he was drinking more, it wasn’t here.’
He rose to fame in the behemoth boy band NSYNC, embarked on a solo recording career in 2002 and was one of pop´s most influential figures in the early 2000s.
Jessica and Justin have been married since 2012 and have sons Silas, nine, and Phineas, three, together.
Justin has continued on his Forget Tomorrow World Tour despite the arrest and Jessica has continued filming The Better Sister, which she also is an executive producer of under her Iron Ocean Films label.
Jessica also was an executive producer of the 2022 Hulu biographical crime drama series Candy in which she played accused axe murderer Candy Montgomery and Justin had a recurring role in Candy as Deputy Steve Deffibaugh.
