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Although Shaquille O’Neal was initially concerned about AI taking over the music industry, the Los Angeles Lakers legend seems to have taken a liking to some aspects of it. While Big Diesel has recently held nothing back when sharing content with his fans, his newest video not something his 33.9 million followers were expecting to see. After Akon and Lil Nas X, $16 million artist Jason Derulo found himself in Shaq’s crosshairs this time.

O’Neal decided to share the song ‘Wiggle‘ by Derulo. However, instead of the American singer’s face and voice, it was the former NBA MVP who graced the video with his appearance and vocals. The 4x NBA champion’s face was morphed on top of Derulo. While it might take some time to get used to seeing a tiny Shaquille O’Neal, the voice definitely matched how Shaq usually sounds. O’Neal gave credit to the original creator of the video as he captioned the Instagram post, “@happycat.1989 does it again.”

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The song from Jason Derulo’s Talk ‘Dirty album came out in 2014 and featured the rapper Snoop Dogg. It is one of his biggest songs and is beloved in clubs around the world, going 3x Platinum in the US and Australia. In the video, Shaq covered the lines after the second chorus, and it’s safe to say that the fans were not disappointed.

While his personal posts started small with some AI-generated images of NBA players as they get older, he has recently been trying out the extent of its capabilities.

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Shaq has been involved in the AI world for some time now. With the Big Aristotle looking to dominate the Artificial Intelligence industry in the near future, this is just a small teaser of what’s to come.

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The 3x Finals MVP is tied to the Authentic Brand Group. They own the branding rights to his name and also helped Shaq purchase Reebok. However, the company recently registered some trademarks, which has people wondering if Shaq is going to become an AI chatbox in the future. The company trademarked “SHAQ AI” and “ASK SHAQ.”

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The AI software is speculated to be a downloadable program that anyone can add to their computers. And as the name suggests, it would be Shaq answering all the questions and queries once it’s added to the system.

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