McDonald’s AI-Generated Ad Controversy, Explained

Somehow, this AI-generated McDonald’s ad about hating Christmas was a flop

If you're having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald's - at least, that's what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested, as reported by Futurism. Set to a song calling holiday season "the most terrible time of the year," the ad shows AI-generated people falling victim to a slew of wintery woes, including family dinners, shopping, caroling, baking cookies, and putting up a Christmas tree, each of which goes wrong somehow. The ad con…

McDonalds pulls AI slop Christmas ad

McDonalds ran an AI-generated Christmas ad in the Netherlands. Battered by online criticism, it has now withdrawn the ad. Similar to Coke's 2025 Holiday ad, the McDonald's spot is like a visual seizure, full of grotesque characters, horrible color grading, and hackneyed AI approximations of basic physics. — Read the rest The post McDonalds pulls AI slop Christmas ad appeared first on Boing Boing.

McDonalds joyless, nauseating Christmas commercial calls it ‘the most terrible time of the year’

A bizarre, AI-generated advertisement for McDonald’s Netherlands is confusing consumers with its “terrible” and “joyless” message. The holidays aren’t all cheer and merrymaking, but most people would […]

McDonald’s AI-Generated Ad Controversy, Explained

McDonald’s released an AI-generated Christmas ad, but the online backlash was so intense that comments were turned off on YouTube and the video was set to private.