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highplainsdem

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6. You're following AI off a cliff when you post AI summaries. And if you were doing things your way,
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 12:48 PM
Wednesday

you'd watch the video and do your own summary, not copy whatever some hallucination-prone software offered as a summary.

I've seen a lot of threads online raving about how great this commercial is, especially compared to recent AI slop like the McDonalds commercial that aired only in the Netherlands but got worldwide backlash and was quickly yanked: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-generated-commercial . No one discussing the French commercial in the OP seemed to think a commercial that's a strong argument against AI needed an AI summary.

AI summaries are also slop (and very damaging to the internet - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/24/ai-summaries-causing-devastating-drop-in-online-news-audiences-study-finds ), and posting one in a discussion of animation that's good because it isn't AI looks like a vote for AI.

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