The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot

[hi_cial@donphan.social]

@ketan the most 2026 usa ad ever, hand them an award

[hi_cial@donphan.social]

@monocularvision @ketan but the narrative and framing make it clear he's doing this after having a neg reaction to peers calling a coworker's beautiful

what is that if not asking ai to replicate what got his peer praised?

[irfelixr@discuss.systems]

@ketan

[loathsome_dongeater@toots.matapacos.dog]

@finestructure @ketan @drahardja AI ads are unironically this cringe. My (least) favourite one was by Apple in which a wife forgets her husband's birthday, gets passively upset at her children for remembering and getting gifts, then uses AI to "gift" her husband something like a collage or montage of photos from her phone, something that phones create automatically these days.

[contrasocial@mastodon.social]

@ketan

Why is it shot like a horror movie?

[budududuroiu@hachyderm.io]

@ketan literally any other combination would've gotten the same response:

- roles reversed: showing whites as victims of "stealing work"
- monoracial (white): product promotes white supremacy
- monoracial (non-white): stereotyping X race as "plagiarisers"

Maybe we tone down on the idpol when we really need some class solidarity, eh?

[feral_3d@mastodon.social]

@ketan That's messed up.

[datguydavid@yiff.life]

@ketan
The gloves have come off, y'all

[peachfront@mas.to]

@ketan

they even named him "kyle," is it satire or are they "honestly" this clueless

[peachfront@mas.to]

@paulcox @ketan

i mean they almost had to...???

[un_blaze@eldritch.cafe]

@hi_cial @monocularvision
He actually does "copy" the work, bottom roght of the screen you can see what he types.
Cf. https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@bigblen/117481299155244444

[boltx@mastodon.social]

@ketan This genuinely comes off as satire to me. Who thought this was an ad that would make people LIKE their product?

[peachfront@mas.to]

@datguydavid @ketan

and so have the sheets...

[michaelcoyote@mastodon.social]

@ketan yikes

[cyberlyra@hachyderm.io]

@ketan Is this real???

[finestructure@mastodon.social]

@loathsome_dongeater @ketan @drahardja Wow, that sounds terrible. That’s like a digital petrol station bouquet but with even less effort and therefore more of an insult.

[yacc143@mastodon.social]

@ketan
Beside the embarrassing and cringeworthy aspects.

It also shows exactly how not to use an "ai assistant".

That's like throwing dice on that rather mediocre Copilot thingy.

[andycallisto@tech.lgbt]

@ketan Now I feel obligated to send a link to a YTP of Ballmer selling Windows 1.0
https://youtu.be/DSxppbyj1gw

[mewsleah@meow.social]

@ketan i wonder how many eyes that ad passed through before it was approved for release, that not one of them went "hang on... what are we actually saying here?"

[elala@nrw.social]

@ketan
Wow, they’ve strung together some of the worst human traits (racism, envy, greed, selfishness, hypocrisy, superficiality...) and labeled them as desirable, only to then use them to promote a product?‍
So this is it — the brave new world envisioned by the tech fascists, the one that’s supposed to solve all our problems on Earth?

Can I hope this is satire?🥴 🫣