For reasons that I can’t even begin to fathom or explain, actor and TV host Mario Lopez posted a short AI-generated video of his 19-year-old niece, Kalia Wong, eating multiple hot dogs at once before leaning forward as her shirt opens up and mustard flies out of her mouth. Lopez has since deleted the post but not before the internet collectively went WTF?
On August 2, Lopez and his niece went to a Los Angeles Dodgers home game. The Saved by the Bell actor, who is probably better known these days for hosting the daily entertainment news show Access Hollywood since 2019, shared a few different videos and photos of himself and his niece enjoying the Dodgers game. However, one of the videos he posted on Instagram and Twitter was unlike the others. It was generated using Grok’s video AI tools and showed his niece eating three hot dogs and then smearing mustard on her face while he looked on and shouted: “Oh my god, look at you! You’re a mess, the mustard!” Alongside the AI-generated video, he posted the comment “I can’t take my niece anywhere!”
Uhhhh, what a creepy video for Mario Lopez to create using AI and then post…
Especially since the subject is his niece! pic.twitter.com/3hgKxYnUdz
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 3, 2026
Shortly after posting the AI-generated video, Lopez deleted it. However, Kotaku was able to see the video before it was deleted. And others online, like journalist Yashar Ali, saved a video recording of the original clip and shared it on social media. Many called the clip creepy and disgusting and pointed out that the woman in the video is his 19-year-old niece.
His most recent post on Twitter shows him boxing and training to scare away his daughter’s future boyfriends. The comments below that post are filled with people calling him a creepy uncle and other insults.
“More like prepping for getting the shit kicked out of you by your own relatives, you creepy weirdo,” posted one user.
“Really gonna just pretend like you didn’t post some creepy shit? Really?” posted someone else.
Lopez has not yet posted an explanation of why he thought this AI-generated video was worth sharing with others or why he even generated it in the first place. Perhaps he will try to just post through it. Good luck with that, dude.
