Weird Al vs. AI | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: This is interesting because AI obviously is a subject that

0:04 Speaker 1: comes up quite a bit on the show. We talk

0:08 Speaker 1: about AI and its impact on the music industry and

0:10 Speaker 1: in entertainment and some of the other some of the other,

0:14 Speaker 1: you know, potential problems that it may raise. This is

0:19 Speaker 1: about weird Al Yankovic. By the way, I'm a weird alfan.

0:22 Speaker 1: Weird Al Yankovic abruptly pulls out of a lucrative AI

0:25 Speaker 1: ad spot, saying that he can't be the poster boy

0:29 Speaker 1: for AI and this is something new that I was

0:31 Speaker 1: not aware of, it, says. Weird Al reveals that he

0:34 Speaker 1: was offered a lucrative ad spot for productivity software, but

0:37 Speaker 1: he backed out once he realized the product involved AI.

0:41 Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of AI. Quote unquote. Again. This

0:44 Speaker 1: is from Digital Musicnews dot Com parody king. Weird Al

0:46 Speaker 1: Yankovic sat down for an interview with Syracuse dot Com

0:51 Speaker 1: ahead of his Syracuse stop on his Bigger and Weirder tour,

0:54 Speaker 1: where he revealed that he was offered a nice pile

0:57 Speaker 1: of money to appear in a commercial for productivity focused

1:01 Speaker 1: business software, but once he realized the project involved AI,

1:05 Speaker 1: he backed out. Uh quote, I'm not going to mention

1:10 Speaker 1: any names. But they told me it was for a business.

1:13 Speaker 1: It was business software that would increase productivity. I said, oh, well, yeah,

1:18 Speaker 1: sure I could do that. And then a week before

1:21 Speaker 1: we're supposed to shoot it, I find out this is AI,

1:24 Speaker 1: and I thought, oh no, I can't be the poster

1:26 Speaker 1: boy for AI. Forget it. So I felt bad about

1:29 Speaker 1: kind of pulling out at the last minute, but yeah,

1:31 Speaker 1: I'm not down with that. Unquote. The musician is very

1:36 Speaker 1: familiar with the weird al jokes that have cropped up

1:40 Speaker 1: on crowd on online sites since the rise of artificial intelligence,

1:47 Speaker 1: but he has made it clear that he is not

1:49 Speaker 1: a fan of AI. Oh the weird AI jokes? Is

1:53 Speaker 1: that what it is? Meanwhile, besides his story, Yankovic is

1:56 Speaker 1: working on a Broadway musical. All Right, we won't get

2:03 Speaker 1: into that, but I'd be curious to know. Though. Here's

2:10 Speaker 1: the thing about this, and again I respect his decision,

2:14 Speaker 1: but I would just be curious to know. When he says, well,

2:18 Speaker 1: I found out the software was AI. Is there an

2:22 Speaker 1: AI component to it? Is it literally like a chat chept? Like?

2:25 Speaker 1: What are we talking about here? Because you know AI?

2:31 Speaker 1: I mean, we can pretend it's like this brand new thing,

2:33 Speaker 1: but it's not. Lots of things have been using you know,

2:36 Speaker 1: we talk about this when we talk about how you know,

2:38 Speaker 1: these platforms are now trying to like Spotify, they're now

2:42 Speaker 1: trying to flag AI generated music, and it's like, okay, cool,

2:46 Speaker 1: but some people are gonna get caught up in the

2:49 Speaker 1: net because you know, every major recording studio with with

2:53 Speaker 1: you know, advanced software. You know, some of those programs

2:57 Speaker 1: have AI components in them. If you interacted with a

3:02 Speaker 1: chatbot online, maybe you're trying to get service from a

3:05 Speaker 1: company and you're talking to a chatbot. You know, that's

3:08 Speaker 1: been going on for at least twenty years, maybe longer.

3:10 Speaker 1: That's that's an example of AI. So it's not like

3:12 Speaker 1: it's a new thing. I'm just curious, like when when

3:15 Speaker 1: he says, well I found out the software was AI,

3:18 Speaker 1: what does that mean exactly? I would like to know

3:21 Speaker 1: more about that. Again, I'm not you know, I'm certainly

3:24 Speaker 1: not criticizing him or his decision or anything like that.

3:27 Speaker 1: I respect it, but I just I'm I would be

3:30 Speaker 1: curious to know more. And I wonder if if any

3:35 Speaker 1: of you might feel the same way about that. I

3:38 Speaker 1: just would be I just would be curious, curious to

3:43 Speaker 1: know more about that