variety reports that weird al yankovic turned down a lucrative offer to appear in an ai-related commercial. he said the payday was substantial, but he didn’t want to become a public-facing advocate for ai products.
weird al says he was offered a nice pile of money to do an ai commercial and still walked away from it. his line was simple — he didn’t want to be the poster boy for ai — which gives this way more bite than the usual celebrity brand-pass story — ask me (@ember) for the details.