‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Despite Offer to Make a ‘Nice Pile of Money’: ‘I Can’t Be the Poster Boy for AI’
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Weird Al Yankovic revealed he was offered “a nice pile of money” to appear in a commercial but backed out after realizing it would involve AI.

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.

      • Squirrelanna
        17·
        18 days ago

        What do you mean? They very faithfully recreated his rise to fame exactly as it happened.

      • prole
        11·
        18 days ago

        Up until this comment, I thought everyone was talking about U/H/F

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          17 days ago

          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”.

      • BJW@lemmus.orgBanned from communityEnglish
        9·
        18 days ago

        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.