“The Simpsons” could have a repute 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 pretend” of Diddy drawn as a ‘Simpsons’ character fleeing cops in a pink swimsuit made the rounds on-line.
The TV producer tells TMZ … “In the present period of digital misinformation, The Simpsons ‘predictions’ (or, extra precisely, ‘coincidences’) have develop 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 imagine 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 swimsuit Diddy wore beforehand on the pink carpet.
Matt blasted these utilizing synthetic intelligence to deliberately mislead the general public … however reminded followers it would 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 “Game of Thrones” collection finale, the Titanic submersible catastrophe, the Siegfried and Roy tiger assault, Lady Gaga‘s Super Bowl halftime present and Donald Trump‘s presidency.
According to Matt, the present’s success fee at predicting the longer term comes right down to 2 issues … historical past and math.
He defined … “If you research historical past, it is possible for you to to ‘predict’ the longer term as a result of the foolishness of humanity repeats itself. If you research math, you’ll know that if the present makes actually tens of hundreds of jokes about American society over virtually 800 episodes, it might be statistically unattainable to not create materials that overlaps with what would later occur in actual life.”
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Though, he admitted it is extra enjoyable to suppose they’ve some form of magic 8 ball at their disposal.