The Independent (Singapore): Esquire Singapore under fire for using AI to create ‘interview’ with Mackenyu. “Esquire Singapore has been the subject of recent backlash due to an ‘interview’ it conducted with the Japanese-American actor Mackenyu Maeda, who plays Roronoa Zoro in One Piece on Netflix. The problem is that it wasn’t an interview at all.”

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