In February 2026, following Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show performance, avideo (archived) of a supposed interview with the Puerto Rican musician circulated on social media.
In the video, Bad Bunny supposedly claimed his performance was shorter than normal due to security concerns and that he had worn a bulletproof vest during the show.
Snopes readers wrote in to ask whether the video was real. However, we determined it was AI-generated.
The rumor that Bad Bunny wore a bulletproof vest during his Super Bowl performance spread widely online in the days after the event, so an interview in which he admitted to wearing one would have been widely reported by reliable media outlets. Searches ofBing,DuckDuckGo,Google andYahoo didn't return results for such reports.
We also compared the voice in the video circulating online withother clipsof Bad Bunny speaking English, his second language. To put it simply, the voices did not match.
Bad Bunny speaks English with a noticeably stronger accent than the voice in the video. (Listen to the differences in the word "halftime," for instance). Furthermore, he occasionally makes minor grammatical errors when speaking his second language. For comparison, in the fake video, the English is grammatically perfect and delivered with an almost robotic cadence.
The speech in the fabricated video is also unnaturally flat, lacking the natural variations in inflection that characterize real human voices – a telltale sign of AI-generated audio.
The TikTok user who appeared to be behind the fake clip has shared other AI-generated content in the past, including a fabricated video of actor Macaulay Culkin talking about the death of actor Catherine O'Hara. That earlier video was clearly labeled as AI-generated. However, the fake Bad Bunny video did not include the same disclosure as of this writing.
Snopes reached out to the TikTok user to verify that they created the video and, if so, which AI tools they used. We will update this report if we receive a response.
For further reading, Snopes previously covered rumors that Bad Bunny wore a bulletproof vestduring his halftime performance and atthe 2026 Grammy Awards.