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Re:McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash by aitchnyu on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:28AM (#46217466)
I've seen individual AI fans create these in minutes, hardly '"seven weeks" where the team "hardly slept" and created "thousands of takes"'.
Re:McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash by amonith on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:37AM (#46217567)
The thing is, if you want AI output to be heavily directed, which is probably the case here, I can imagine that thousands of random takes had to be made to make the damn thing follow the director's imagination. If you don't care too much about the output you can make these very quickly, yeah.
Re:McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash by eurekin on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:31AM (#46217498)
Oh, that can also mean they were out partying using the ad budgets funds :D