San Francisco Giants Under Fire for Using AI on Young Dodgers Fans

In the world of North American professional sports, there are few rivalries with more history and hatred than the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants.

The two teams have despised each other since their beginnings in New York, and it has only gotten more heated since moving across the country to California over 70 years ago.

For the past decade, it hasn’t been fun for the Giants, who went from having their own dynasty of winning a trio of World Series trophies to watching the Dodgers do the same.

What used to be a fortress for Dodgers fans to walk into down in the Bay has now been overpopulated with blue hats in recent years, as L.A.’s popularity has skyrocketed with its consistent winning and signing of players like Shohei Ohtani, while the Giants have been stalled in mediocrity.

During the three-game series at the start of the week, a large portion of the crowd was made up of Dodgers fans invading their rival’s ballpark. And the Giants weren’t going to stand for it.

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So, in what the Giants’ media team probably thought was a fun idea, they took photos of Dodgers fans at Oracle Park and used AI to change them into Giants fans.

Although the small segment was used on their videboard to garner some laughs from the fans in attendance, things got heated online when people realized that they had used several young Dodgers fans for their AI fun.

Although the Giants won the first two games of the three-game stint, the Dodgers got the final laugh on Thursday, shutting out San Francisco to keep tied with the San Diego Padres at the top of the NL West.

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This story was originally published April 24, 2026 at 12:01 PM.