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Matt Barnes denies being swindled out of thousands by an AI model on a dating site

The former NBA player called out fans, friends and blogs who spread the rumor

“When the hate don’t work, they gotta start lying. But y’all motherf------ don’t have to believe ‘em,” he said

Matt Barnes has had enough with unfounded rumors.

In a video posted to his Instagram account on Monday, Dec. 8, the former NBA player, 45, denied that he was scammed out of thousands of dollars by an AI (artificial intelligence) model on a dating app.

He prefaced the clip by saying he recently “hit rock bottom” and had both “a lot of negatives, [and] a lot of positives from 2025,” but apparently, paying a woman who never existed $61,000 was not one of his low points.

“And all these little bottom of t

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