Neil DeGrasse Tyson is firing back at some of the recent deepfake videos that have been circulating online lately.

The 67-year-old astrophysicist is understandably not pleased by the fact his likeness is being used in AI-generated videos to promote unverified scientific theories.

Because of these videos, people—even people he knows—have been led to think that Neil believes in the flat earth theory, among other things.

During the Thursday (October 30) StarTalk video, he stated, “That’s not me.”

“I’m flattered that people want to put me into content in a way that attracts audiences. I’m seriously flattered by that. However, it’s a deepfake. If its fooling people and people are not thinking ‘oh this is a parody, this is just a fun excursion’ then it’s transgressive to the integrity

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