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    Esquire AI-Generated A Fake Interview With Live-Action One Piece Actor Mackenyu Because He Was Busy
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    Esquire AI-Generated A Fake Interview With Live-Action One Piece Actor Mackenyu Because He Was Busy


    Esquire AI-Generated A Fake Interview With Live-Action One Piece Actor Mackenyu Because He Was Busy

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    1. cranberrylimeade420 on

      > It’s a bizarre read, but the strangest thing about it is Esquire’s justification for the stunt. “We were stoked to have some face time with the Japanese-American actor, but his schedule prevented it,” writes Esquire’s Joy Ling. “With a driving need for a feature, we had to be inventive. Harnessing our creative license, we pulled his verbatim from previous interviews and fed them through an AI programme to formulate new responses.”

      > Reading through the “interview” itself, which Esquire notes “was produced with Claude, Copilot, and edited by humans,” feels like a fever dream. AI Mackenyu is asked a breadth of vague and ridiculous questions, like how he (it?) deals with “pressure and expectations” and feelings of “disillusionment,” and the AI responds exactly how you’d expect it would: by throwing out non-committal answers and referencing things with absolutely zero context.

      > Also, hey, Esquire: maybe you shouldn’t have published the bit where AI Mackenyu talks about the pressures of living up to his deceased father, the legendary action star Sonny Chiba, and how it wants “to make him proud,” because that’s incredibly fucked up. I mean, really, you shouldn’t have published this at all, but you definitely shouldn’t have published that specific bit.

    2. AlphaBetaOmegaSin on

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      You…didn’t need to do that…at all…

    7. FlowersByTheStreet on

      Busy with….?

      Interviews are part of what you sign on for as an actor!

      Shame on Esquire though, we truly live in hell

    8. Senior-Jaguar-1018 on

      Journalism savagely murdered in grizzly public execution by friends and family

    9. firesticks on

      I feel bad for whoever was forced to do this by their corporate overlord. An own goal in this climate.

    11. ShesWhereWolf on

      This is so insane, what happened to rexheduling??? When actual magazine or newspaper publications are using A.I. in this way, I don’t get it. 

    14. Excellent_Spend_2024 on

      Hi we couldn’t get what we wanted so we just made it up and that’s fine even if thst means misrepresenting someone and their beliefs.

      The fact that we choose to do this especially with a group of people thst go underrepresented and put our twist on it should also be disregarded.

      After all what does ethics have to do with anything. 🙃

    15. orbjo on

      This is ghoulish. AI generated words, and pictures, is all just puppeteering human lives like we’re nothing. 

    19. tbsmango on

      I feel like i was mackenyu i would be offended ngl. Dont you dare put random words in my mouth and try to pass it off as a cute AI experiment

    22. kinezumi89 on

      Great, let’s just replace him with an actor in a mask, who needs the real thing /s

    24. punchelos on

      We weren’t starving for content badly enough to need ai interviews like literally no one asked for this

    25. Ani_Lee on

      The fact that they asked the AI generated Mackenyu about living up to Sony Chiba’s legacy. That’s beyond ghoulish.

    27. SmakeTalk on

      What’s wild is that this would have been a GREAT April fools article if it was actually written by a person and tastefully done.

      Instead it’s just actually real and super fucking embarrassing for everyone involved.

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