{"id":245137,"date":"2025-11-05T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245137\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:42:08","slug":"jeopardys-ken-jennings-issues-apology-to-john-pork-after-backlash-over-ai-generated-label-in-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245137\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Jeopardy&#8217;s Ken Jennings Issues Apology To John Pork After Backlash Over &#8220;AI-Generated&#8221; Label In Clue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jeopardy-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeopardy-2\" data-tag=\"jeopardy-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeopardy<\/a>\u00a0is full of geniuses, but they don\u2019t always get it right, and host <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ken-jennings\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ken-jennings\" data-tag=\"ken-jennings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Jennings<\/a> had to issue an apology to viewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the episode from October 17, the viral John Pork meme became the center of debate among viewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe character came up in the question for the category \u201cDaddy, is there really a\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cNo: A.I. generated the TikTok image of this pig\/human eventually killed by Tim Cheese,\u201d read the clue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNone of the contestants was able to correctly guess the internet character, and even Jennings chimed in, saying, \u201cI didn\u2019t understand any of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhen the moment was shared on social media, production was quickly corrected by fans who noted that John Pork appeared online as early as 2018. At the time, AI-generative tools were not widely accessible to the public. Although many social media users might use AI tools to create new memes with the character, it wouldn\u2019t have been the case back then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing the outcry from Jeopardy fans, Jennings shared an apology to John Pork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWhen we played a clue recently on Jeopardy on John Pork, I remarked that I didn\u2019t understand a word of it,\u201d a seemingly joking Jennings said in a TikTok response video. \u201cWell, I\u2019ve had a chance to learn quite a bit about the late Mr. Pork, including the fact that some viewers took exception with our description of him as \u2018AI-generated.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe continued, \u201cNow, even though AI is used heavily in many of his TikToks, it\u2019s possible that wasn\u2019t the best wording to refer to his original appearances. John, I hope you\u2019ll forgive me and all of us at Jeopardy for any insult we may have committed against you or your memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWatch the apology in the video below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeopardy\u00a0is full of geniuses, but they don\u2019t always get it right, and host Ken Jennings had to issue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,11275,102692,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-245137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-jeopardy","tag-ken-jennings","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}