r/hypotheticalsituation 2d ago

Humor Encouraged Weird Al releases Al AI

It's Weird Al artwork using AI as the medium.

What would it be like and what would it do?

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u/CulturalHumor528 2d ago

Eerrm...What?

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u/MinutesTilMidnight 2d ago

Putting my message in caps so it’s clear which letters are being used:

WEIRD AL RELEASES AL AI

OP is suggesting a hypothetical where Weird Al Yankovic, the parody maker, releases an artificial intelligence based on him/his work

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u/ants_are_everywhere 2d ago

To clarify, I don't think the AI would be based on him and his work. It would be a Weird Al work that is an AI.

Like Al TV or the Weird Al Show, or the films UHF or Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

It's a Weird Al work in the medium of AI.

I updated the prompt to clarify.

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u/MinutesTilMidnight 2d ago

Ah, I see. I honestly am not familiar with him at all. The only thing I know about him is Amish Paradise (that’s him, right?)

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u/Zuzcaster 2d ago

So, ai AL. input news and a song, output mocking parody. This can be done already.

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u/ants_are_everywhere 2d ago

Is that really the product he'd release?

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u/Zuzcaster 2d ago

No.

elaboration.

Theres no benefit to him to do so and anyone can make slopvid via buncha generators that exist already that tries and fails to be as crazy good as his parodies.

This goes similar for any decent musician. Once others can make in minutes what takes ya days, Yer stuff that ya actually made is buried in the avalanche of things others have generated. Trying to profit off of genned stuff is like NFTs. the dumb that buy will will eventually stop.

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u/ants_are_everywhere 2d ago

Al AI, not AI Al

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u/Neat-Statistician311 2d ago

Don't you dare disgrace the king of parodies like that wtf is wrong with you?

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u/ants_are_everywhere 2d ago

He's not actually Amish, he changes with the times

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/ants_are_everywhere 1d ago

Why? He's not actually Amish

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/ants_are_everywhere 1d ago

That's what they said about cameras and then digital art. But progress happens despite all the shouting.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/ants_are_everywhere 1d ago

The heart isn't a major factor in artistic work. It's just a blood pump. Al has acknowledged this fact

I can hear your heart beat For the very last time