“The Simpsons” could have a popularity for making popular culture predictions that come to fruition, however within the case of Diddy‘s downfall, the Fox cartoon made no such prophecy.
The cartoon’s showrunner, Matt Selman, defined all of it to TMZ after an “AI faux” of Diddy drawn as a ‘Simpsons’ character fleeing cops in a pink go well with made the rounds on-line.
The TV producer tells TMZ … “Within the present period of digital misinformation, The Simpsons ‘predictions’ (or, extra precisely, ‘coincidences’) have change into meaningless. Any goofball can whip up an AI picture based mostly on a present occasion and say ‘The Simpsons predicted it!’ — and decent-but-easily-misled of us will consider it as a result of they so very need it to be true.”
To be truthful to those that had been duped, the picture was fairly convincing, particularly because it featured a pink go well with Diddy wore beforehand on the pink carpet.
Matt blasted these utilizing synthetic intelligence to deliberately mislead the general public … however reminded followers it does not take a lot to authenticate a picture.
MS additionally addressed the present’s success at predicting key occasions in historical past — together with the Ebola outbreak, the “Recreation of Thrones” collection finale, the Titanic submersible catastrophe, the Siegfried and Roy tiger assault, Woman Gaga‘s Tremendous Bowl halftime present and Donald Trump‘s presidency.
In response to Matt, the present’s success price at predicting the longer term comes all the way down to 2 issues … historical past and math.
He defined … “In case you examine historical past, it is possible for you to to ‘predict’ the longer term as a result of the foolishness of humanity repeats itself. In case you examine math, you’ll know that if the present makes actually tens of 1000’s of jokes about American society over virtually 800 episodes, it might be statistically not possible to not create materials that overlaps with what would later occur in actual life.”
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Although, he admitted it is extra enjoyable to suppose they’ve some type of magic 8 ball at their disposal.