Re:McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash
by port11 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @03:16PM
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I think this one was especially bad because a massive corporation can't be arsed to do better. Like, Apple exaggerates a lot on their advertising, but at least there's some heart to it. (Coming from someone that doesn't like Apple.)
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Re:McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash
by danielbln on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @03:25PM
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Unless they do an ad where they literally crush creativity into a thin slab, an ad they had to later apologize for. Pepperage Farm remembers.
Re:McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash
by ronsor on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @03:36PM
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People care way too much about this.
Ads suck, in general. They're slop whether a human or an AI made it, and I don't want or care about them regardless.
Re:McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash
by danielbln on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @03:38PM
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So don't. But if mega corps want to juice our brains with their slop, to the degree that it's difficult to escape it, then we should also be able to sneer at the ads that miss the mark even more than usual.
Re:McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash
by ronsor on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @03:40PM
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You're foolishly giving them attention. Marketing teams know this.
If an ad is bad, it's better to ignore it and not write news articles about some marketing-fabricated controversy. Now you're thinking about McDonalds, which is what they wanted! They don't actually expect you to buy a burger tomorrow because of this.