rose
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rose
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🔕 . she/her . Qian Kun 钱锟, Yuta 中本悠太, and Day6 fan 🐻🍒🍀

🦔Esquire Singapore published an AI-generated interview with Mackenyu, the actor who plays Roronoa Zoro in Netflix's live-action One Piece, because he was too busy to attend in person. The magazine fed transcripts from his previous interviews into Claude and Copilot to generate new responses, then published the result with a note that it was produced with AI and edited by humans. Mackenyu never responded to their emails and his talent agency has not promoted the piece. The AI-generated interview includes a passage about the pressures of living up to his late father, legendary action star Sonny Chiba. My Take There is a version of AI in journalism that makes sense. Transcription, research assistance, fact checking, summarization. This is not that. Esquire couldn't get an interview so they generated one using a model trained on things the subject had said before and published it as if it represented his current thoughts and voice. Mackenyu never agreed to this and almost certainly doesn't know it exists. Saying they had a driving need for a feature and had to be inventive should make every reader of any publication nervous about what they're actually reading. The driving need was a content slot. Inventing quotes from a real person and publishing them, regardless of what tool you used to invent them, is fabrication. Disclosing the AI involvement doesn't change that, and generating emotional statements about deeply personal subjects on someone's behalf without their consent is not a creative solution to a scheduling problem. Hedgie🤗

the fuck are you yapping about Kun, stop dragging Kun into your agenda and making a fuss about his studio, saying he has privilege. Stupid, he built that studio because he did NOT have PRIVILEGE

LMFAOOO did yall even read the article you're citing the community note from??? Do you seriously not understand that even functionally gender neutral language posesses sexist origins and implications that draw on men as the default? philstarlife.com/geeky/342880-f…















