'SNL' goes after AI, startup culture, and 'predatory tech guys'
Source: Business Insider ·
'SNL' fired shots at AI startup culture in its latest episode.
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'Saturday Night Live' took aim at startup culture and AI across multiple sketches during its Halloween broadcast.: Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images'SNL' fired shots at startup culture in its latest episode.Comedian Ben Marshall played Pennywise the clown pitching a new AI company to trap kids.In another segment, a Sprite exec admits its new flavor tastes bad because "we used AI to make it.""Saturday Night Live" took aim at startup culture and AI across multiple sketches in its Halloween broadcast, including a spoof of the stereotypical big-talking startup dude, channeled through Stephen King's Pennywise."We started a company — it's called WeAllFloat.ai," comedian Ben Marshall, playing the malevolent clown, said in the segment. "Instead of trapping one kid with one balloon, what if you had hundreds of AI agents, each with their own digital balloons?"Before Pennywise came on, "Weekend Update" host Michael Che got a joke in about the floundering stock price of Google's parent company,…