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Weird Al Backed Out of an Ad Spot After Being Kept in the Dark About the Company’s True Nature

A parody song made with AI will never be as good as Weird Al even on his worst day. 

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Weird Al Yankovic is not embracing the supposed technology of the future. In a time when it feels like artificial intelligence is growing rapidly out of control, it’s nice to know there are those who still enjoy the toil of doing human work. And despite the unfortunate fact that Al and AI are almost indistinguishable in a sans serif font, Weird Al wants nothing to do with it.

Speaking with The Post-Standard ahead of a July 10 concert in Syracuse, New York, Weird Al commented on the AI phenomenon. Generative AI has made parody songwriting easier than ever. But when a song is just a command typed into a machine, it loses the creative spirit that comes from human intelligence. In other words, AI strips........

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