Ahead of a Syracuse, New York, stop on his “Bigger & Weirder” tour, Yankovic revealed to Syracuse.com in an interview published this week that he was offered “a nice pile of money” to appear in a commercial for business-focused software, but he backed out once he realized the ad would involve AI. “I’m not a fan of AI,” he said.

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[–] 33 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Michael Jackson and Kurt Cobain were happy enough to let Al use the original sets for the music videos of their parodies.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Super paraphrasing because my memory sucks.

    During an interview Weird Al mentioned briefly talking with Kurt Cobain and saying one of the reasons for the parody was because no one knew what Kurt was saying.

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