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Google pulls Olympics ad that showed AI writing a little girl's letter for her

by capital_guy on 8/2/24, 7:34 PM with 5 comments

• by TillE on 8/2/24, 8:22 PM

  > While the ad tested well before airing

  I can understand how the iPad crush ad slipped out, because there's a genuine positive intention and they just missed the secondary interpretation. But I don't see how "AI writes a deeply personal letter for you" could possibly appeal to anyone.

  If their focus group liked it, I can't even imagine how bad the other ads they tested were.

• by hindsightbias on 8/2/24, 8:33 PM

  When I saw this ad before, I thought how weird, must be another generational thing I don't get like disco, .com, housing bubble, MAGA, Taylor Swift. Which is fine, but now am jolted by the response to think some mass is meandering back towards my fescue belief circle.

• by heyrikin on 8/2/24, 7:57 PM

  I think this was blown a little out of proportion IMO.

• by JSDevOps on 8/2/24, 10:29 PM

  Who on earth kept running with thinking this was a good idea. Absolutely garbage.