Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending
Meta is facing criticism for using David Bowie's song 'Five Years' in a feel-good AI advertisement. Critics point out that the song is about an impending apocalypse, which contrasts sharply with the optimistic tone of the ad.
“Call us optimists, call us dreamers, call us whatever the hell you want — but we’re betting on people, and we like those odds,” the narrator says, as a toddler plays with a butterfly, two parents laugh with their infant, and Jalen Brunson waves at the Knicks Championship Parade. (The ad also takes special care to highlight use cases for its controversial smart glasses that are not, say, harassing women while surreptitiously recording them.)
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