“Weird Al” Yankovic pulled out of his participation in a commercial for a business software company when he found out it is an artificial intelligence company.<\/p>\n
In Syracuse, NY for his “Bigger and Weirder” tour, he told Geoff Herbert of Syracuse.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n “I’m not a fan of AI. I was offered this commercial before the tour. I’m not going to mention any names, but they told me it was for a business. It was business software that would increase productivity. And they offered me a nice pile of money. I said, ‘Oh well, yeah, sure, I could do that.’ And then a week before we’re supposed to shoot it, I find out, oh, this is, it’s AI. And I thought, ‘Oh no, I can’t be the poster boy for AI, forget it.’ So I felt bad about kind of pulling out at the last minute. But yeah, I’m not, I’m not down with that.” <\/p>\n Many artists have been fighting the unregulated, indiscriminate use of artificial intelligence, particularly in the creative arts.<\/p>\n More than 200 musical artists, including Billie Eilish, Elvis Costello, and Stevie Wonder have signed an open letter<\/a> protesting the potential harm artificial intelligence<\/a> poses to the arts. And visual artists Kelly McKernan, Karla Ortiz, and Sarah Andersen filed a class action lawsuit<\/a> against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt, claiming their copyrighted works were illegally used to train the companies’ AI models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Weird Al” Yankovic pulled out of his participation in a commercial for a business software company when he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,123006,181,507,1036,216,74,45757],"class_list":["post-744642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-inteligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-comedy","tag-music","tag-technology","tag-weird-al-yankovic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}