showrunner is setting the record straight over speculation the hit animated program predicted . Selman says an image that depicts Diddy as a character on the run from the police is the work of AI — the show’s animation team. “In the current era of digital misinformation, ‘predictions’ (or, more accurately, ‘coincidences’) have become meaningless,” Selman told in an article published on Thursday, May 23.
“Any goofball can whip up an AI image based on a current event and say ‘ predicted it!’ — and decent-but-easily-misled folks will believe it because they so very want it to be true.” A viral image of Diddy as a character trying to evade Springfield’s finest has gained traction over the last week after security camera footage emerged of Diddy assaulting his former girlfriend, , in a hotel hallway in 2016. has a long history of foreshadowing future events, including and .
“If you study history, you will be able to ‘predict’ the future because the foolishness of humanity repeats itself,” Selman said of the show’s track record. “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.” Diddy, 54, on Sunday, May 19, two days after published footage of .
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