AI App From Linked to a Disney Star Sparks Alarm Over Eerie Loved One Simulations

Over the last several months, companies that incorporate artificial intelligence have been going through the modern equivalent of the space race. That has left a slew of different business leaders investing heavily in the current tech wave and trying to find ways to monetize AI.

While many of the biggest companies in the world have been investing in AI's future, it has recently been revealed that a former Disney Channel star has joined the growing industry. Unfortunately for that former child actor, however, the promotional video for the newly launched AI app he is linked to has inspired a backlash as many observers react.

Austin & Ally’s Calum Worthy Is Linked to a Controversial App

For many decades, the vast majority of celebrities have focused on whatever made them famous, like being an actor, musician, or athlete. However, in recent years, it has seemed like virtually every celebrity has been launching their own side business. On November 11, 2025, the former Austin & Ally star, Calum Worthy, published a video promoting an app that he has gotten involved with. While the role Worthy had in founding the company is unclear at this time, the fact that he is at least promoting the business took his fans by complete surprise.

A 1-minute and 46-second video that Worthy published on his X account announced the newly launched AI-themed app called 2wai. The app is designed to allow users to create an AI version of anyone after recording that person for only three minutes. Just based on the fact that the app is meant to create AI versions of real people, 2wai probably was always bound to be controversial. However, the promotional video that Worthy uploaded certainly compounded many observers' concerns.

When the video begins, a pregnant woman is shown talking to her mom on her phone. After it is revealed that the woman has given birth, she asks her mom to read her son, who is 10 months old at that point in the video, a story. There are two more time jumps that allows the viewer to see the woman's son, speaking to his grandmother on the phone when he is 10 years old and 30 years old. While the son ages significantly throughout the video, the grandmother never does. That is because it becomes clear that the son has been speaking to an AI version of his deceased grandmother for 30 years.

As AI has become more advanced, many studies have pointed to the dangers of people turning to the technology for companionship and emotional support. Despite that, the video depicts a person being raised to see an AI version of his deceased grandmother as a family member for at least three decades of his life. It is also remarkable that the grandmother's AI version is shown to be based on only three minutes of footage of the real woman goofing around. That makes it obvious that the AI version could be severely misrepresenting who the real person was.

Worse yet, the video makes it clear that not only did the son tell his AI grandmother secrets, the program remembered what he revealed in confidence and brings it up unprompted. With companies regularly selling their users' data, that adds another reason for 2wai to be very controversial.

What if the loved ones we've lost could be part of our future? pic.twitter.com/oFBGekVo1R

— Calum Worthy (@CalumWorthy) November 11, 2025

Calum Worthy’s 2wai App Has Sparked Significant Outrage on Social Media

In the days since Calum Worthy published the video promoting 2wai on X, his post has received more than 6.4 thousand comments. Looking at those comments makes it very obvious that many observers are extremely bothered by the concept for the controversial app.

For example, many responses expressed anger at the idea that the app will be charging people to have access to the AI versions of their loved ones. A lot of the comments also called the app out for causing a lot of pain and encouraging users to lose touch with reality. There were also remarkable comments like one that suggested the idea that the app could someday have people's AI loved ones reading them ads.

Despite all the people expressing outrage on social media, it is interesting to note that, at least as of now, the app's reviews tell a different story. As of the time of this writing, 2wai has an average of 4.7 stars out of 5 on the App Store for iPhones, which is the only place it is currently available.