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OP is the original upload, but the agency reposted it with English subs after it got popular outside of France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLERt5ZkpQ4 http
by jsheard 11mo ago
OP is the original upload, but the agency reposted it with English subs after it got popular outside of France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLERt5ZkpQ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLERt5ZkpQ4
- deltarholamda 11mo agoYou can tell it's great visual storytelling because you don't even need to know the words. I guess the McDonald's ad didn't need words either, but it was just depressing and awful.
- Extropy_ 11mo agoWhat was the McDonald's ad? Could you drop a link, perhaps?
- troyvit 11mo agoHere's a guardian link that tells the story and includes the ad: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/11/mcdonalds-removes-ai-generated-christmas-ad-advert-backlash https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/11/mcdonalds-r...
- Extropy_ 11mo agoCheers bro!
- Sprotch 11mo agoThank you! Goodness, that ad made me want to barf
- amelius 11mo agoThat ad looks like a concatenation of Tiktok shorts.
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- littlestymaar 11mo agoThat'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).
- Tade0 11mo agoLooking 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.
- InsideOutSanta 11mo agoBoth because of the content, and because of the odd perspective shifts in the AI-generated footage. It made me feel like I was drunk.
- nightshift1 11mo agoSometimes telling the truth is unwelcome I guess.
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- xg15 11mo ago> “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?
- IsTom 11mo agoAh the famous AI efficiency and productivity boost.
- Aloha 11mo agoI thought the McD add was hilarious - I would have preferred it not be AI.
- johnnyanmac 11mo agoThe ad felt like a family guy skit. And animated about as well as modern FG animation. I guess that will speak to if you will find the ad funny or just depressing. I don't think the Ai helped either way.
- abc123abc123 11mo agoYes, it was brilliant! As for AI, who cares? It's a commercial. Laugh, and move on.
- Idesmi 11mo agoIt looks like shit.
- anonzzzies 11mo agoI thought the McDonalds one was good and what does it matter it was AI ; mcdonalds makes artificial food and everything about the place is artificial so why not artificial ads?
- qingcharles 11mo agoI'm pro-AI but I thought the Coca-Cola and McDonald's ads were shit. The Coke one was especially egregious because if the creators hadn't been lazy they could have made it look half-decent. Instead it's janky and inconsistent and ugly.
- InsideOutSanta 11mo agoThe worst part about the Coke ad is the fake "making of" video they released to show how much manual work went into their ads. The "pencil sketches" ostensibly made by humans in the making of were also AI-generated.
- fogj094j0923j4 11mo ago>artificial food As if people are not "cooking" the exact same food bought from these supermarkets.
- stackghost 11mo agoI don't usually make salads with 750 calories and an entire day's worth of sodium when I cook.
- seec 11mo agoYou probably do, but you don't count the calories, and instead of everything being in the salad, you have a few ingredients outside (bread, nuts, cheese, whatever). Salads being a healthy, low-calorie thing is an idiocy; it's only possible if you don't use any dressing, and at this point you are only eating crunchy water. Otherwise, the oil in the dressing is over 800 kcal per 100g. Most people will put the equivalent of 50-70g of bread just as dressing in their salad. It's mostly fat and not filing. In other words, it's extremely dumb to think salads are healthy; only fat women believe that shit and this is exactly why they end up like this.
- ryandrake 11mo agoIt’s probably a mistake to read too much into it but I can’t help but notice the McDonald’s ad is kind of a mirror held up to all the things that American culture has been progressing into: cynical, mean, isolated, artificial... whatever the opposite of “wholesome” is. Totally off-key for what Christmas is supposed to stand for. Christmas (at least the secular holiday) is supposed to be about kindness, putting differences aside, enjoying people and family, and the commercial was pretty much the opposite of that.
- oneeyedpigeon 11mo agoHere in the UK, Tesco is running a pretty similar campaign to the McDonald's one (without the AI): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=711Cq8_E0oI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=711Cq8_E0oI I think Brits tend to be more cynical than Americans, though, so it kinda tracks.
- InsideOutSanta 11mo agoThat ad is brutal. I feel sorry for people who experience Christmas like this.
- jinushaun 11mo agoMisery loves company. Some people just want other people to be as unhappy as they are.
- oneeyedpigeon 11mo agoThat montage version is actually quite uplifting compared to the longer version of each individual segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMUWrBKHoKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMUWrBKHoKc I mean, that's just depressing to watch :(
- georgefrowny 11mo agoI'd like to know what Monopoly knock-off is partly in the shot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebA8X4HChJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebA8X4HChJM PSA: if you have family meltdowns playing Monopoly, try following the rules and allowing auctions of un-bought property. At least the game may eventually end then. Or just don't play games intended to be teachable "well isn't this shit" moments.
- ars 11mo agoI liked the McDonald's ad quite a bit because it encapsulated how I feel about this time of year - although I've never in my life eaten in a McDonald's and don't intend to start.
- johnnyanmac 11mo agoVery cute story. It's a shame my cynic brain is telling me "but wolves can't survive off of berries and nuts". Also, I guess fish are fair game in the forest hierarchy. Should have user an omnivore.
- felipellrocha 11mo agoSuspension of disbelief.
- littlestymaar 11mo ago> Also, I guess fish are fair game in the forest hierarchy Fish don't appear to have the ability to speak or engage in social relationship with other animals in the story, so it makes sense to eat them. Like vegan find it OK eating mushrooms even though they are closer to us than they are to plants.
- latexr 11mo ago> Like vegan find it OK eating mushrooms even though they are closer to us than they are to plants. Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of fungus. Complaining about eating those is akin to complaining about eating apples; you’re not harming the tree.
- tialaramex 11mo agoSo, although it's difficult to generalize because exactly where the line is drawn varies from one vegan to another, it's generally not enough that the animal wasn't directly harmed. For example the honey bees make honey for a reason, just as apple trees make apples for a reason and maple trees make a sugary sap for a reason. "So that humans can eat it" isn't the reason in either case. The apples and maple syrup are categorised differently by vegans because the trees aren't animals. That's still an arbitrary line, but so are most things.
- latexr 11mo ago> bees make honey for a reason For themselves. To eat. So it’s easy to understand the argument that you’re harming them directly by stealing their honey, which is the result of their labour. But surely there’s nuance there. I don’t doubt there are ethical growers who provide bees with an extra nice and controlled environment, plus care for them and help them fight pests, and thus feel like taking a share of the produced honey is a fair trade. The bees might agree. > "So that humans can eat it" isn't the reason in either case. But it is. In the case of many fruits, the goal is for an animal (humans included) to eat them, seeds and all, then poop them out (bonus fertiliser) somewhere else. > That's still an arbitrary line, but so are most things. No disagreement there, but I don’t see how any of that is relevant to my comment. I was correcting a misconception about mushrooms, not debating the nuances of vegan opinions. I don’t care for the label and don’t think it’s helpful to fight about what it means. It’s much more important to strive to be progressively better than to aim for perfection and fail. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231187#46242623 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231187#46242623
- NedF 11mo ago[dead]