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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 day ago

“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.”

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,”

Wow, ok, so can we talk about how they just open up themselves for a lawsuit. Really, when would people see this as a massive redflag