‘Simpsons’ Showrunner Says Show Didn’t Predict Diddy, Slams Viral Image as Fake

“The Simpsons” could have a status 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 fake” 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 … “In the current era of digital misinformation, The Simpsons ‘predictions’ (or, more accurately, ‘coincidences’) have become meaningless. Any goofball can whip up an AI image based on a current event and say ‘The Simpsons predicted it!’ — and decent-but-easily-misled folks will believe it because they so very want it to be true.”

To be honest 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 crimson 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 Tremendous Bowl halftime present and Donald Trump‘s presidency.

Based on Matt, the present’s success price at predicting the longer term comes right down to 2 issues … historical past and math.

He defined … “If you study history, you will be able to ‘predict’ the future because the foolishness of humanity repeats itself. If you study math, you will know that if the show makes literally tens of thousands of jokes about American society over almost 800 episodes, it would be statistically impossible not to create material that overlaps with what would later happen in real life.”