{"id":334348,"date":"2026-03-07T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334348\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:44:07","slug":"seth-macfarlane-defends-using-ai-to-play-bill-clinton-in-ted-season-2-ai-bill-clinton-seth-macfarlane-ted-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334348\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth MacFarlane Defends Using AI to Play Bill Clinton in \u2018Ted\u2019 Season 2 | AI, Bill Clinton, Seth MacFarlane, Ted | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/seth-macfarlane\/\" title=\"Seth Macfarlane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seth MacFarlane<\/a> is addressing a controversial moment in the new season of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ted\/\" title=\"Ted\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the second season of comedy series centered around the foul-mouthed teddy bear was released on Peacock. In the new season, Seth, 52, portrays <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/bill-clinton\/\" title=\"Bill Clinton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Clinton<\/a>, a feat he was able to accomplish through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ai\/\" title=\"Ai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a new interview, Seth explained why he opted to use AI to play the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026\u201cI\u2019ve been doing my Bill Clinton impression since the early days of Family Guy,\u201d Seth told the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/the-only-way-i-looked-like-bill-clinton-seth-macfarlane-explains-why-he-used-ai-in-ted-6d18e0d3592143f4ad4f79d393a337f8\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/the-only-way-i-looked-like-bill-clinton-seth-macfarlane-explains-why-he-used-ai-in-ted-6d18e0d3592143f4ad4f79d393a337f8&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cWe filmed this like a year and a half ago. That\u2019s how long it takes us to do the CGI. It\u2019s an interesting example of how AI can be used as a tool and not necessarily trample on the art that the rest of the industry is doing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Seth \u2013 who also directs, writes, and executive produces the show \u2013 said that the Ted team had tried to use every other option before eventually turning to AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tried prosthetics, we tried traditional CGI, and everything just looked terrifying,\u201d he recalled. \u201cSo we just said, \u2018To hell with it, let\u2019s try AI.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Seth went on that he considers the AI version of Clinton to be a success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt worked,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was the only way I looked like Bill Clinton.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/01\/17\/ted-season-2-trailer-ted-john-bennett-enter-adulthood-in-peacock-series-watch-now\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch the Ted season 2 trailer here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seth MacFarlane is addressing a controversial moment in the new season of Ted. Earlier this week, the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-334348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}