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He’s the one who could get away with it, if he did it right.
Weird Al is a creative. Embracing AI at all is the wrong way. There is no right way to offload your humanity to an algorithm.
But also his name looks the same in sans serif fonts and he is a parody guy. So there are ways he could get away with it.
I’m saying he could either get away with selling his soul and not damage his rep too much, or go down to that crossroads, pull out his accordian, and potentially be the last man standing (on another pile of money)
Good! Weird Al is awesome
I am all for the proliferation of (Weird) Al in everything, particularly when using sans-serif fonts.
Since everybody wants AI cancelled nowadays, that’ll just be… Weird.
I hadn’t heard about this. Somehow it doesn’t surprise me though.
I think they’re saying people want to cancel ai, not AL - and playing on how in most fonts capital i and lowercase L look the same.
Thanks. I feel dumb now.
I think that was the commenter’s intent, so don’t feel too bad
I’m sorry you feel dumb, and you don’t need to - we all have our “whoosh” moments. I only intended to clear the air regarding my long time hero Weird Al.
Love Weird Al Hate weird AI
I saw him perform two years in a row at the local fairgrounds. The second show he says “For those of you that were here last year… this show is exactly the same!” and it was still great! He’s one of the real ones.
Well it wasn’t exactly same. I bet the previous year he didn’t say that part about it being the same show. 🙃
Yeah, but he’s been using that same line for six years now, twice is ok, but hearing the same joke about Bogart and Bacall six times in a row is totally fucked up.
Did we just find the weird Al fan equivalent of the guy who plays an MMO to the point they run out of content?
Drives me nuts that the capital “I” looks the same as lower case “L”. What happened to the top and bottom line on the “I”?
Nothing happened to it. It’s there in some fonts, and not in others.
Wait till you find out about keming.
But to get to the point, some dudes created Helvetica, which was adapted later, like Judaism to Christianity, to create Arial.
Explanation
The reason being, Helvetica was made in the 1950s as exclusive for IBM and Microsoft didn’t want to pay for it, so they had their own exclusive made in the 1980s, a legally distinct but practically identical version.
This is the category called Sans-Serif
Explanation
The name means ‘without serifs’, which are ‘extra’ identifiable pieces on the characters on the bottom like flicks on a and l or the feet on the i, I and 1
Popular serif styles from multiple sources exist
such as:
From Apple:
- New York
From Google:
- Roboto
- Merriweather
- Lora
From Microsoft:
- Georgia
- Aptos Serif
- Cambria
Open source:
- EB Garamond
- Instrument Serif
- Libre Baskerville
Alright please forgive me for this one transgression of using Gemini, but this is one statistical likelihood that feels creepy
What did this query accomplish, exactly?
I got to learn why the font style has those flaws, a few fonts that do and don’t have the same flaws and, ultimately, I got to use the information I learned to submit an informational comment beside the one we’re under
The dumbass AI CEOs probably thought it would have been soooo clever to use Al for AI.
Good guy Al.
Good guy Weird Al.
Proper Alfonse
Ordinary Albert
Respect
Of course he can’t be the poster boy for AI, he’s already the poster boy for awesome :)
Al Yankovic has always been an awesome dude. I was a big fan in the 90s but have since outgrew him. I listened to his Greatest Hits Vol. 2 CD recently on streaming, and it’s cool, but it just doesn’t hit the same. I still appreciate him as an artist, though, and for how respectful he is of the original work he’s lampooning.
I do fear AI will replace him for later generations. Parodies not done by Al were often credited to Al, even when they were dirty or profane (Al would never).
I feel like he should parody You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon. I mean, it’s right there. “You Can Call Me Paul.” If Paul says you can call him Al (the song title is from a misunderstanding that actually happened), Al can call himself Paul, at least for a joke. I’m sure somebody has done this, but it would make more sense if their name was Al.
I saw Weird Al when his tour hit my city last summer (finally! I’ve been a fan since I was a kid). Yeah I don’t actively follow his stuff anymore but he and the band are still great. Fun show even as an adult.
He actually closed the set with a cover of You Can Call Me Al. From what I understand that’s a regular thing 🙂
Makes sense. I’ve never seen him live
The Weird Al has out-AI -ed the AI. 🤭
On a different note, who the hell is this guy’s hairdresser? He must be literally rolling in money from all the royalties and cameo appearances in the Naked Gun, and still he looks like a sheep in the rain after eating a bowl of cold spaghetti bolognese. At least his billionaire chums Musk, Bezos, Gates and Zuckerberg have decent haircuts (top and around the private parts I may add).
Have you considered the idea that it might be a choice by now?
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What do you mean? His hair is glorious, especially for someone who is 66 years old.
What makes you think Weird Al is friends with bezos and musk? With a net worth of under 20m he’s much closer to us than any of those people.
The owner of the last startup I worked for had more money than this.
