{"id":317585,"date":"2026-03-07T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/317585\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:36:07","slug":"seth-macfarlane-said-to-hell-with-it-using-ai-in-ted-to-transform-into-bill-clinton-it-was-the-only-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/317585\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth MacFarlane Said \u201cTo Hell With It\u201d Using AI In \u2018Ted\u2019 To Transform Into Bill Clinton: \u201cIt Was The Only Way\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Hollywood\u2019s concern around artificial intelligence grows, Seth MacFarlane<\/a> is justifying the technology after bringing one of his long-running impressions to life.<\/p>\n

The Oscar nominee recently explained why he used AI in the sophomore season of the 1990s-set Ted<\/a>, now available to stream on Peacock, to turn himself into President Bill Clinton<\/a> for a cameo in the episode \u2018The Sword in the Stoned\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been doing my Bill Clinton impression since the early days of Family Guy<\/a>,\u201d he told the Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cIt\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

MacFarlane added, \u201cWe tried prosthetics, we tried traditional CGI and everything just looked terrifying. So we just said, \u2018To hell with it, let\u2019s try AI.\u2019 It worked. It was the only way to look like Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Hollywood\u2019s concern around artificial intelligence grows, Seth MacFarlane is justifying the technology after bringing one of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9721,9722,9718,9720,9719,156,434,4223,111,139,69,9723,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-317585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-acteurs","9":"tag-actrices","10":"tag-actualites","11":"tag-celebrites","12":"tag-cinema","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-films","15":"tag-hollywood","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-realisateurs","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}