Celebrities that you don’t actually know probably shouldn’t be your role models. Still, we’d be lying if we said we weren’t a little inspired to hear about how comedic musician Alfred “Weird Al” Yankovic told the AI industry to “Eat It” after being approached to star in an ad.
In an interview with Syracuse.com spotted by AV Club, Yankovic dished on AI, saying he was “not a fan” of the tech, disliking it to the point that he’s resisted the siren song of taking a payout to shill for its powers.
As he tells it, he was offered “a nice pile of money” to star in a commercial before kickstarting his current tour. At first, the ad was pitched to him as for “business software that would increase productivity,” which sounded innocuous enough.
“And then a week before we’re supposed to shoot it, I find out, oh, this is, it’s AI,” he continued. “And I thought, ‘Oh no, I can’t be the poster boy for AI, forget it.”
