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’
2026-07-02 16:15 UTC
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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@wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-02 23:59
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.
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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-07-03 03:32
I can’t tell the difference between Al and AI
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@osanna@lemmy.vg 2026-07-03 01:26
Good Guy Al
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@themoken@startrek.website 2026-07-02 17:18
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.
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@TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 2026-07-04 03:57
“The hero we need, but not one that we deserve”