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Weird Al Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Deal: 'I Can't Be the Poster Boy for AI'
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- emsign 4mo agoGood on him. He saved his dignity.
- triceratops 4mo agoThey should've gone to Larry David.
- dwroberts 4mo agoWonder if this was Salesforce
- bombcar 4mo ago"Say Al" force.
- mjhay 4mo agoHe’s such a good guy
- steve_adams_86 4mo agoGenuinely one of the most fun performances I've ever been to, as well! The small venue accentuated Al's insanely huge personality.
- galleywest200 4mo agoHe was one of my first concerts. I saw him at the Puyallup Fair in Washington State.
- ButlerianJihad 4mo agoMy personal meme is to occasionally weigh in with a comment about one of his videos being "Al-generated content". It is not my fault if people using sans-serif fonts get mad about it.
- jfengel 4mo agoI had noted a few weeks ago that Hacker News used a font without serifs, causing confusion. I'm not sure when they changed that, but there are now serifs on the capital I and lower case "l". This headline is much less confusing for the change. Thanks.
- HedonicEscal8r 4mo agoIt depends on browser defaults. On Brave and Chrome, I don't see serifs, and on Firefox I do.
- ButlerianJihad 4mo agoOn HN you have a choice and browser styling. In many social media mobile apps, you really don't. It's their style or the highway.
- spacechild1 4mo agoI'm on Firefox and I don't see serifs. Might be OS dependent as well.
- bitwize 4mo agoThere was a guy on TikTok whose daughter (~10 yo) had discovered a "Weird A.I." that could "take any song and make it funny".
- DamnInteresting 4mo agoI was in my car with my seven-year-old when the Paul Simon song "You Can Call Me Al" started playing. She saw it pop up on the infotainment screen, and wanted to know why anybody would want to be called A.I. (our household has a low opinion of A.I., largely due to the unending firehose of slop aimed at children on YouTube). Good song though.
- olivierestsage 4mo agoBest possible ad for Weird Al. How did we get here? Why am I, a lifelong tech enthusiast, on a tech enthusiast board championing someone for resisting technology? I’ve been on HN for years but it’s starting to feel absurd ever since I’ve been out of sync with the whole AI thing. Thanks for listening to my Ted talk.
- ares623 4mo agoAs is often repeated here, "technology is a force multiplier". AI has been multiplying the wrong things (for the common people) at an amazing rate, while the good things it multiplies have been few, arguable, and lagging behind. Usually to be enthusiastic about new tech, it needs to be the reverse. New tech that multiplies the "good things" first while the wrong things catch up later (see Internet, cars, commercial aviation, smartphones). Sure, fellow software engineers who spend 8+ hours a day writing code see it as the opposite, since AI _is_ seen as doing the "good things" (i.e. writing code). But eventually the bad things will catch up with us too.
- solenoid0937 4mo agoThe general public has never been enthusiastic about new tech until well after the benefits start rolling in and are undeniably obvious. https://pessimistsarchive.org/ https://pessimistsarchive.org/ AI is no different. People like to think they have some special new insight as to why "it's bad this time!" but the average person has always reacted to change with FUD.
- Ar-Curunir 4mo agoUsually this happens after the naysayers have been forcibly evicted from economic and social life
- solenoid0937 4mo agoAnd look at how far we have come. We are all the better off for it, by nearly every objective QoL measurement there is.
- qsxfthnkp2322 4mo agoTake the money while it’s still there.
- galleywest200 4mo agoNah, he turned down alcohol ads in the past too. Id rather he retain his legitimacy and morals.
- Sohcahtoa82 4mo agoHe has a career that's spanned over 45 years and has managed to avoid controversy. The man's a saint.
- olyjohn 4mo agoThis is the attitude that is ruining everything.
- qsxfthnkp2322 4mo agoIn five to ten years we all are going to be wishing we took the money.
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