Brands, from McDonald's to H&M, drew backlash in some quarters over their AI-driven ads and marketing experiments.
McDonald’s likely hoped its new holiday commercial would land as a funny, slightly chaotic take on the season. Instead, the AI-generated spot quickly set the internet buzzing, and not in the way the ...
The new commercial is part of MS NOW’s We the People campaign, which began last month in connection with the rebrand. The ...
McDonald’s has become corporate enemy number one after its hideous AI holiday commercial went viral across numerous social media platforms for all the wrong reasons. TBWA and The Sweetshop — the ...
Some social media users in the Netherlands said they couldn't stomach it, so McDonald's has withdrawn an advertisement generated entirely by artificial intelligence. Entitled “the most terrible time ...
The ad attempts to present McDonald's as a safe haven amid the holiday madness, but its use of AI has drawn widespread ...
McDonald’s paid a marketing agency to make an AI Christmas ad — and the result looks like something a bored teenager would generate during lunch break. But the worst part isn’t the ad. It’s the people ...
Normally, a brand would be thrilled if its new holiday commercial went viral, but a new McDonald's Netherlands ad has gone viral for all the wrong reasons. Originally posted to YouTube on Dec. 6, the ...
Update: McDonald’s has issued a very strange response to the drama. Thanks to the rise in popularity of generative AI, mainstream companies like Coca-Cola and Google are jumping on the bandwagon to ...
The commercial was originally released as part of a holiday-themed campaign for McDonald’s in the Netherlands and spearheaded by agency TBWA\NEBOKO. “December is often presented as perfect, while the ...
A Dutch McDonald's commercial was made entirely using AI, and the backlash has been severe, according to NDTV. The ad featured families grappling with the chaos of the holiday season, including ...