“The Simpsons” might have a fame 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 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 turn out to be meaningless. Any goofball can whip up an AI picture primarily based on a present occasion and say ‘The Simpsons predicted it!’ — and decent-but-easily-misled people will imagine it as a result of they so very need it to be true.”
To be honest to those that have been duped, the picture was fairly convincing, particularly because it featured a pink go well with Diddy wore beforehand on the crimson 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 “Sport 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 keeping with Matt, the present’s success fee at predicting the longer term comes all the way down to 2 issues … historical past and math.
He defined … “For those who examine historical past, it is possible for you to to ‘predict’ the longer term as a result of the foolishness of humanity repeats itself. For those who examine 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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Although, he admitted it is extra enjoyable to suppose they’ve some type of magic 8 ball at their disposal.
