Viral deepfake ad casts Musk, Bezos, and Altman as corpulent overlords powering AI on human sweat. Its creator says the best jokes tell the truth

An AI spoof ad featuring older and heavyset versions of tech billionaires like Elon Musk went viral for promoting a dystopian future where humans power the machines that put them out of work. One of the video’s creators says there’s at least some truth to it.

In the video, aged-up versions of Tesla CEO Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have teamed up to create a new company: Energym, a fictional gym which harvests the energy from laid off humans on stationary bikes and rowing machines to power AI.