“Spicy” K-Pop Company Criticized For “Disgusting” New Venture With Female Idols
AI is an extremely divisive piece of technology, but in K-Pop, netizens have shared anger at its use, especially when it comes to being used to create disgusting “deepfakes” of female idols.
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Recently, K-Pop company RBW Entertainment was seen promoting an app on their social media, tagging idols from their company and subsidiaries, including MAMAMOO‘s Solar, OH MY GIRL‘s Hyojung, and Young Posse‘s Jiana.
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K-POPファン必見！
「推しと会話できる時代」が到来🎉ヨンジ（KARA）・Solar（MAMAMOO）など
人気アーティストのAIアバターが
【almigo】から登場🎤詳細はこちらhttps://t.co/cwmFewdX7y
📲「almigo」で検索🔍
👉 https://t.co/7euXd7CU17#almigo #KLleon #KPOP #AIアバター…— RBW JAPAN Official (@RBW_JAPAN) June 5, 2025
RBW digging their own grave by thinking that AI "spicy talk" will gain more fans. This will only attract creeps who want parasocial relationships. And the fact that they're only using their female artists and uploading on their Japanese account thinking they can hide it from fans…
— Gamja🥔 (@gamja619) June 5, 2025
The app quickly drew backlash for its AI concept, allowing fans to simulate a chat with an idol via voice or text. Yet, on a deeper dive, it sparked fury and was labeled disgusting after netizens noticed that a premium subscription gives users a chance for a “spicy” option. Netizens were angry after imagining what it could entail when it came to female idols, especially in the world of deepfakes.
please report it! RBW is promoting an app that uses AI to have spicy talks with the idol.
Solar, and no artist deserves this, it’s disrespectful and completely clueless 🖕🏻🖕🏻PROTECT YOUR ARTIST!#RBW_알미고_철회해#RBW_almigo_stop pic.twitter.com/oYgvWBxWPw
— ✩ (@byeoolda) June 5, 2025
I wish the affected girls could sue rbw over this, absolutely NO ONE would agree to sell their image like this
— kiwi (@swfstagram) June 5, 2025
rbw is genuinely so out of touch with what fans want and how to successfully run an entertainment business. they’ve tried selling us gold bars, nfts and now ai deepfake chat bots- all unsuccessful endeavours that just pissed fans off
treat your artists like artists, not products
— moonbyul 문별 (@KIWIBYULIE) June 6, 2025
Rbw using AI of their female idols for a chat app that includes a SPICY paid subscription is not only disgusting it's so fvcking dangerous
— -Maria (almost ia) (@itsMaJo) June 5, 2025
One fan shared that content for Young Posse came from when they were minors.
RBW invested in an ai site that includes chats with the young posse members (+ other RBW idols).
the vids are from debut era, where the girls were 13, 15, 17, 19, and 19. they also added Jiana onto the sexualized chatbox option, using her 17-year-old self as the selection. pic.twitter.com/U6G4mTkA8P
— sara 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ (@doeunfy) June 5, 2025
Every fan who support an RBW Idol/Group under one of their sub-labels: (https://t.co/pKhDgwtplG) should not only report this app, but boycott the whole company! They're using UNDERAGE Idols on a NSFW APP!!!#RBW_알미고_철회해 #RBW_almigo_stop @RBW_OfficialTwt https://t.co/emFcETVtGM pic.twitter.com/7zG8YGk3FE
— David33 (@SDavid3388) June 5, 2025
Netizens are demanding a response from the company.
