Chris Daughtry Slams AI Fakes Claiming His Marriage Is on the Rocks: ‘Absolute Bulls—‘

Chris Daughtry slammed AI fakes that claim his marriage is in trouble.

On Thursday, Nov. 13, the “Home” musician shared an Instagram Reel where he shut down fake footage being circulated of him and wife Deanna Daughtry.

“STOP BEING BAMBOOZLED!” Chris captioned the post.

“S— is getting just unbelievably nuts out there with the fake accounts, the fake news, the fake headlines,” he said in the video. “It’s insane. The amount of times I see, ‘Hey is this real?'”

Chris then emphasized that he has one account and then there’s the Daughtry band page.

“So, if you’re not seeing news being posted on our official page or my page — or at least being corroborated by reposting something from another source —then it’s not real. It’s clearly AI y’all. I mean some of this stuff is so…ridiculous that I’m baffled that people would ask if this was real,” he said, pointing to a set of AI images including fake tour posters and one featuring him with a black eye split with him and his wife fighting.

Chris then told his fans not to “engage” with the fake pages and that he had tried hard to get these pages shut down.

“Y’all it affects me on a deep level when things are said that aren’t true about me or my family and then to have it constantly being sent to me by people, it’s too much y’all,” said Chris.

He told his fans to “stop falling for this bulls—.”

Chris further addressed why he decided to make his latest Instagram Reel in a Monday, Nov. 17 interview with Rolling Stone.

According to the “Over You” artist, he “went against my manager’s wishes.”

“He was like, ‘You don’t want to be feeding this machine or drawing more attention to it.’ And I was like, ‘F— that.’ I want everyone to know this is absolute bulls—, and I will shout it from the mountain tops,” said Chris.

He added, “And that was why I recorded the video. It’s getting out of hand.”

Chris then noted that the fake meme that made him laugh was “the one where my wife gave me a black eye.”

“That was the one that I use the screenshot for the cover of the video, because it was just so ridiculous,” he said. “I love that one because, first of all, it doesn’t even look like me. Look at it!”

This isn’t the first time Chris has confronted the widespread use of AI.

In 2023, Daughtry released the single “Artificial,” which took aim at AI culture.

“Plug into the new you/Don’t resist ’cause it’s no use, it’s no use/It’s digital warfare/The death of who we are is right here,” he sings on the track.