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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’ (variety.com)
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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.

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[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net -5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I watched to 2022 movie "Weird: The AL Yankovic Story" It was crap, it would have been much better off as an honest biography.

[–] Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was there as it happened, perhaps my memory is a little fuzzy.

[–] Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Yup. I'll miss him after his assassination.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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".

[–] Epp@lemmus.org 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

"Banned from community" for terrible taste in movies? Bit harsh...

[–] nevyn@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 week ago

It was definitely weird