{"id":525264,"date":"2026-07-04T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525264\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:39:09","slug":"weird-al-yankovic-pulls-out-of-ai-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525264\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic pulls out of AI ad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic isn\u2019t down with AI. The musician, who is traveling across the United States for his Bigger & Weirder Tour, sat down with Syracuse.com<\/a> for an interview on Monday. Talking to Geoff Herbert, Yankovic revealed that he\u2019d pulled out of an ad for a business software company after learning of the ad\u2019s connections to artificial intelligence. He alleged that, despite being offered a \u201cnice pile of money,\u201d he backed away from the partnership. Yankovic has not revealed the name of the software company he was scheduled to work with. \u201cThey told me it was\u2026a business software that would increase productivity,\u201d he told Herbert. \u201cI said, \u2018Oh well, yeah, sure, I could do that.\u2019 And then a week before we\u2019re supposed to shoot it, I find out this is AI. And I thought, \u2018Oh no, I can\u2019t be the poster boy for AI, forget it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Yankovic, whose human-generated tour runs through the fall, is no stranger to toying with copyrighted material. In fact, he built a career out of parodying existing art. But, even for the weirdest among us, Yankovic is too freaky. \u201cI felt kind of bad pulling out at the last minute,\u201d he explained to Herbert further. \u201cBut, yeah. I\u2019m not down with that.\u201d Apologies to the poor marketing intern who had that bright idea: when \u201cWeird Al\u201d dares to be stupid, he\u2019s doing it all on his own. This probably means there won\u2019t be any AI-generated content in the forthcoming \u201cWeird Al\u201d Broadway musical<\/a>, something that can\u2019t be said these days for Broadway as a whole<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic isn\u2019t down with AI. The musician, who is traveling across the United States for his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-525264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}