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.
I call it the mirror test. It’s like looking in the mirror and recognizing it’s a mere reflection or not.
Of course, not all people who are anti-AI are necessarily folks I will agree with on other things, even assholes get it right on occasion. But it certainly has been the case that the non-assholes have been very consistently like Weird Al here…