Posted by gbugniot 12/11/2025
I really believe AI will never match the real feeling from created art, but I also don't know why we NEED/WANT it to. It's not a race to the bottom. But AI usage will increase until shareholder value increases.
edit: getting downvoted to hell, but I think my question is valid. What does it mean "no AI"? Are we just limiting ourselves to the render?
It means no AI. If I say you used no AI but had an LLM write or refine the script, I would have lied.
You may be getting downvoted because your comment's tone can read as accusatively presumptive. "Who knows" isn't a useful contribution to almost any discussion. Which is a shame, because you raise an interesting point–I would personally feel fine saying no AI was used to do work even if I used AI to help me with research. (Provided I read all the primary sources.)
On the other hand, the McDonald's ad is obviously AI-rendered, but all the concepts and prompts and choices might have been made by humans? Which doesn't make it any better (although it's not that bad, it's just average).
The ad is doing it on purpose. It is literally manipulating you and you are spreading the malicious influence to other people. It's not AI but it sure is 'slop'. Propaganda, even.
...slopagada
I think people will make reasonable decisions about whether or not to purchase food this winter with or without the "malicious influence" of these ads.
Personally I interpreted the fish as either a timely Christian symbol (and fish at Christmas is traditional in some places) or simply because a meat dish would not have worked in context.
The company is virtue signaling, pandering, and you're falling for it. Jesus Christ.
It is true!
And as a (very occasional) customer, I like that this company is signalling that it does not oppose inclusion and doesn't mind questioning "traditional values" (the wolf eating animals).
Many actors these days (both companies and political figures) are very much signalling the contrary, so some kind of signalling is absolutely useful.
Is that the way people say "advertising" these days?
Enjoy your simulated steak.
It becomes funny how hard they try to move us. And in the end it's just for a supermarket.
People really don't care that much, especially when for something positive, original and funny somebody grumpy comes along and tries to drag discussion down their misery pit.
snarky comments -> not ok
got it, ever thought about going into politics?
"worldwide hit"
Please make white peoples'* astroturfing great again.
* I include Ashkenazi Jews in this category, in case anyone cares.