Google pulled an Olympics TV ad where a father uses Gemini to help his daughter write a personal letter to an athlete, after criticisms that the ad is tone-deaf
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Discussion
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@jemoryparker
J Emory Parker
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Now that we've defeated the Google gemini ad we need to also talk about the Copilot ad where the guy makes a powerpoint deck in 5 minutes before a presentation. Can you even imagine what a boring waste of everyone time that presentation must have been? …
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@davidimel
David Imel
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I think this video perfectly encapsulates everything that's wrong with GenAI right now. Companies are shoving things down our throats that are replacing the things that are SUPPOSED to be human. If your daughter wants to write a letter to an athlete and needs help, you help her…
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@jbillinson
Josh Billinson
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Perhaps we actually don't need the tech world to figure out some weird AI-powered way to replace extremely basic human connections!
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@durvidimel
David ImeI
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@Techmeme @asabhiken Writing any “heartfelt” letter using AI is tone-deaf and should never be marketed as a feature
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@jasoninquires
Jason Inquires
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I never understood how this ad made it to air.... what was the point of this? Who was supposed to look good in it?
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@victoriathetech
@victoriathetech
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I spoke recently about how I absolutely hate the Google Gemini AI ad that's playing during the Olympics regarding a father and daughter using it to write a letter to an Olympian. And now there are articles on how much the public hates that ad. Link: https://nymag.com/...
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@samuelaadams
Sam Adams
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the sheer number of people and the amount of money involved, and not one thought the idea of having a computer fake your kid's admiring note to their hero was a little bit off—shows you how divorced AI boosters are from anything resembling human emotion https://www.hollywoodrepor…