Col on Nostr: Google, has surely won “the gold medal for worst Olympic ad”, says Caroline Mimbs ...
Google, has surely won “the gold medal for worst Olympic ad”, says Caroline Mimbs Nyce in The Atlantic. Their US ad is about a little girl who loves American runner Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. She tells her dad she wants to write her idol a letter – he fires up Google’s AI chatbot and gets the algorithm to do it for her. What a bleak message. “It takes the feel-good cliché of a child getting to interact with their idol and squishes a multimillion-dollar large language model between them.”
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