No AI for Al. "Weird Al" Yankovic yanks AI commercial

Weird Al Yankovic has backed out of a commercial for a business software company after discovering it was an artificial intelligence firm, according to Boing Boing. While touring in Syracuse, New York, for his Bigger and Weirder tour, Yankovic told local reporters about his decision. It's a small but telling moment: a cultural figure famous for parody and wordplay drawing a personal line against AI, even at the cost of a payday.

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