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The prince of parody euphony has spoken, arsenic Weird Al Yankovic draws a statement successful nan soil complete AI.
The 5x Grammy victor precocious noted he’s “not down” pinch artificial intelligence, revealing he precocious turned down “a bully heap of money” to prima successful an advertisement for an undisclosed AI company.
“I’m not a instrumentality of AI,” he told Syracuse.com. “I was offered this commercialized earlier nan tour. I’m not going to mention immoderate names, but they told maine it was for a business. It was business package that would summation productivity. And they offered maine a bully heap of money. I said, ‘Oh well, yeah, sure, I could do that.'”
Yankovic continued, “And past a week earlier we’re expected to sprout it, I find out, oh, this is, it’s AI. And I thought, ‘Oh no, I can’t beryllium nan poster boy for AI, hide it.’ So I felt bad astir benignant of pulling retired astatine nan past minute. But yeah, I’m not, I’m not down pinch that.”
The usage of AI successful Hollywood continues to beryllium a hot-button topic. Meanwhile, SAG-AFTRA has endorsed nan Trump administration’s AI argumentation framework, which calls for Congress to enact authorities that includes parental controls, intelligence spot authorities protection, First Amendment protections, expanding AI workforce development, allowing information centers to make their ain powerfulness and removing ineligible barriers that limit AI innovation.
Last month, Trump signed an executive order for voluntary model successful which AI companies would supply nan authorities pinch entree to caller models for a 30-day reappraisal play earlier their release.
