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What was the McDonald's ad? Could you drop a link, perhaps?




Here's a guardian link that tells the story and includes the ad: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/11/mcdonalds-r...

> “However, we notice – based on the social comments and international media coverage – that for many guests this period is ‘the most wonderful time of the year’.”

How to make your corporate response sound even more AI than the actual AI...

> "And here’s the part people don’t see: the hours that went into this job far exceeded a traditional shoot. Ten people, five weeks, full-time.”

If it didn't even save time, then what was the point?


Ah the famous AI efficiency and productivity boost.

Thank you! Goodness, that ad made me want to barf

Both because of the content, and because of the odd perspective shifts in the AI-generated footage. It made me feel like I was drunk.

That ad looks like a concatenation of Tiktok shorts.

That's what happens when you just concatenate the output of an AI trained in Tiktok shorts …

(Which is a shame, as IA video generation can do much better if the author cares a bit about what they're doing).


Looking at it I see familiar elements, which are used by an artist going by the name Gossip Goblin to draw apocalyptic visions of a humanity far in the future that, for the N-th time, almost wiped itself out via increasingly invasive body modifications.

Sometimes telling the truth is unwelcome I guess.

Cheers bro!



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