We’ve all had a bit of time to digest GTA 6’s second trailer now, so naturally a fan’s had a go at re-creating it in GTA 5 for laughs. Cool. Nice. Oh, wait, their otherwise pretty funny video of Michael and Trevor filling in for Jason and Lucia features voices and a cover of Hot Together that sound suspiciously AI-ish.
Come on, the internet in 2025. You don’t have to keep being like this.
If it is AI, that’s a shame too, because the bones of YouTuber Gu1maz’s GTA 5 version of GTA 6’s second trailer are pretty well done in isolation. Each shot from Rockstar’s latest showcase of the meteor it’s now set to drop on us in May 2026 has been re-imagined with characters, locations and props from Los Santos subbed in.
Michael’s playing Jason, Trevor in a dress stars as Lucia, and Jimmy De Santa takes on the role of his spiritual doppelganger Cal Hampton. There’s plenty of physical comedy, including numerous close-up shots of Trevor twerking in front of Michael and failing to lie on top of him because GTA 5’s animations aren’t quite up to GTA 6’s lofty standards.
Then, you turn the sound on. Mike and Trev are delivering all of Jason and Lucia’s lines, but with a very flat delivery that smacks of something AI-ish being afoot. As someone who’s reported on a lot of mods that cleverly and subtly remix existing in-game voice lines in order to create new ones without resorting to the very ethically shady practice of using AI to ape an actor’s voice – something a lot of voice actors are rightly concerned about and presents an existential threat to their livelihoods – I’d like to give Gu1maz a shred of the benefit of the doubt.
The Trevor Phillips cover of The Pointer Sisters’ Hot Together that kicks in about halfway through their video makes that very hard to do, though. Not only does it sound a lot like Trevor song covers you can find on YouTube which are forthright in admitting they’ve used AI, but it’s excruciating to listen to in a way that sounds a bit too robotic to be funny.
There’s still a chance this might not be AI, but even putting aside that big asterisk momentarily, a real person doing a Trevor impression, even the kind of utterly terrible one I’d deliver if I were to attempt this, would probably have done a better job of aping the impressive vocal range required to hit those notes. Plus, it’d be way funnier, in the way that videos like this one wouldn’t be anywhere near as side-splitting if you couldn’t picture the person on the other end utterly destroying their voice box to deliver some true art.
But here we are. It’s 2025, a time when most of the potentially funny things you find on the internet rightly or wrongly leave you questioning whether you should be laughing because of the very real chance someone’s done something ethically dodgy to create them.