Ahead of a Syracuse, New York, stop on his “Bigger & Weirder” tour, Yankovic revealed to Syracuse.com in an interview published this week that he was offered “a nice pile of money” to appear in a commercial for business-focused software, but he backed out once he realized the ad would involve AI. “I’m not a fan of AI,” he said.
Al > AI
Aye
This is hurting my eye.
He’s greater than a lot of things. Stand up human being.
Weird Al > AGI
Weird Al is a national treasure, an institution. I’d bet it’s his sort of music, parody, that AI threatens most simply because it’s riffing on songs that already exist.
On the other hand, the only reason I’d worry that a gen-AI could attempt a masterpiece like “Alternative Polka” is that Weird Al created it first.
Weird Al does a lot more than just parody. He has a lot of original music as well. My wife and I saw him do an “unplugged” concert a couple years ago that was only original music and not a single parody.
The Ridiculously Self Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour? I wanted to see that show but couldn’t make it happen.
Yeah, that sounds right. I’d honestly forgotten how many original songs he’s written. I just realized there’s a comprehensive list here.
That sounds cool!
In case the size of Weird Al’s balls was in question, here’s his response to a fan when the people who have the rights to his movie didn’t release it right away in Australia.
“dooont download this soooong”
Terrible movie though
We must have watched a different movie.
I watched to 2022 movie “Weird: The AL Yankovic Story” It was crap, it would have been much better off as an honest biography.
What do you mean? They very faithfully recreated his rise to fame exactly as it happened.
I was there as it happened, perhaps my memory is a little fuzzy.
Yup. I’ll miss him after his assassination.
Up until this comment, I thought everyone was talking about U/H/F
A few years ago I saw an interview with Emo Phillips and he held up a royalty check he’d just gotten in the mail for his appearance in that movie. It was for $1.37 or some such. He called UHF “the gift that keeps on giving”.
Weird. I watched that same movie and it wasn’t crap. It was brilliant and entertaining.
An honest biography would be worth watching, but infinitely more boring.
It was definitely weird
“Banned from community” for terrible taste in movies? Bit harsh…
You shut your whore mouth
it’s like actors appearing in gambling ads. I immediately lose respect and am disinterested in any new features they are in, as I just can’t separate them from such a despicable role
Yep, same for me lately, seeing actors shilling bullshit is just like…why? Their millions just isn’t enough, need mmoooooorrrre.
I’ve been seeing a lot of Beckham.
The DSM needs to start classifying this shit. It’s a mental illness
Absolutely, was just talking about this yesterday, if nothing else it at least needs to start becoming more socially unacceptable to be so unbelievably greedy.
Then you’re uninterested.
Yankovic is well into the “I don’t fucking give a fuck” stage of life and could easily have just said “Fuck yeah” like a certain pot smoking rapper performing at a controversial political event or the comedians that are OK with blood money.
I am happy people like him exist.
edit: typo/spaling fix
He’s been in that stage since before Another One Rides The Bus… so like, always.
fairly sure hes been like this all his life.
I dunno. There was that one point in his life where he alienated all of his friends because of his infatuation with Madonna. Though I guess he got better after killing Pablo Escobar but refusing to join Madonna in becoming drug lords, for which she had him assassinated.
LIVING LEGEND + NATIONAL TREASURE = WEIRD AL
I am extremely wary of putting people on pedestals, especially people who I don’t even know personally. I will say though, the shit Weird Al keeps doing has me saying ‘well good for you, hell yeah’ pretty much always.
Yeah there are a few famous people in this world that actually seem to be in that camp. Keanu Reeves, Terry Crews, Weird Al, Steve Wozniak, Bernie Sanders…those are just a few of the rare ones I like.
Mr Rogers, Dolly Parton
Nichelle Nichols
Absolutely, although Mr. Rogers would be in the “liked” tense, sadly. He was too good for this world.
Saw his concert very recently, he’s the goat, very fun
He also turned down a $5 million offer to do a beer commercial in the 1980s because he didn’t want to promote alcohol to his fans. This guy is a legend.
Weird AlProper Alphonse
Normal Alfred
I can’t tell the difference between Al and AI
Al stands for Absolute Legend.
The easiest way to tell AI from Al is to remember that AI is Al and Al sounds like AI
The first one uses U+006C l LATIN SMALL LETTER L and the second one utilizes U+0049 I LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
If we compare them side by side (U+006C is placed before U+0049):
lI
It’s obvious that U+006C is taIler than U+0049.
To tell the difference between Al and AI, just look at the height of the second letter.
If the second letter is taller, OP wanted to write Al as in Weird Al Yankovic. If the second letter is the same height as the first, the user wrote AI as in Artificial Intelligence. If the second letter is shorter than the first, OP is either using a Turkic keyboard or being an idiot.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk
Wow, I have croscore fonts on my web browser because web fingerprinting and shit but like dayum, I and l are literally rendered the same pixel by pixel. Unless I zoom in 500%, then the L is 2 pixels taller. Good thing I have a copy of OpenDyslexic that I can turn on for shit like this. I am not dyslexic but still.
wait till ya learn about the Dotless I: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotless_I
That’s why I use the Atkinson Hyperlegible font. Everything is very clearly distinct. lI1, O0, etc. It’s amazing how hard it is to find a good font for this purpose!
One is slightly larger, see lI
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Weird Al doesn’t want to become Shitty AI.
knew as a kid i picked him as a hero of mine for a reason.
He’s one of the only celebrities that I feel like has stood the test of time and not been revealed as a shitty person
the only other person in hollywood i would put on the same level is jack black (que people telling me bad stuff about jack i didn’t know about before.) P. much everyone else there or from there I don’t care about or think are garbage people.
Yeah I’m gonna be that guy. He ended Tenacious D over Kyle making a joke about Trump not getting shot.
I’m also a fan of JB (and Tenacious D for that matter). I heard of this. While I don’t love it ant I don’t agree, I can see it from the perspective of “don’t call for violence for anyone”.
Yah, wasn’t going to engage with this cuz too many psychos on here have this view and I didn’t want to set off the 10th one today, guess he wasn’t one of them. Jack black is a child friendly actor, it’s not surprising to have seen him do that. It would have damage his carear over another’s joke and he said he was waiting to start the band back up later.
Child friendly actor, sure, but tenacious D child friendly? Where their most popular music is from an R rated stoner comedy? The child friendly Tenacious D who have “Kickapoo” and the devil metal song about selling said band mate to Satan as a sex slave? Tenacious D is not for children lol
Què?
Keanu Reeves
Opp, him too, he’s not one of my youth heros but your deff right.
Ahh totally a fair point. Missed the message about “as a kid”
I haven’t yet heard anything horrible about Dolly Parton
Don’t do it Al. Don’t make me love you more.
I always admired Weird Al and now I admire him even more.
