{"id":177252,"date":"2025-12-10T06:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/177252\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T06:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:21:14","slug":"somehow-this-ai-generated-mcdonalds-ad-about-hating-christmas-was-a-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/177252\/","title":{"rendered":"Somehow, this AI-generated McDonald\u2019s ad about hating Christmas was a flop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you\u2019re having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald\u2019s \u2014 at least, that\u2019s what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/mcdonalds-ai-generated-commercial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Set to a song calling holiday season \u201cthe most terrible time of the year,\u201d 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 concludes by telling viewers to \u201chide out in McDonald\u2019s until January\u2019s here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">However, unlike Coca-Cola\u2019s ad, the McDonald\u2019s ad took the risk of including people, rather than just cartoon forest critters. Most of the people in the ad aren\u2019t seen again and some of the shots are a bit off, like one showing a person falling while ice skating, only for their limbs to turn jelly-like halfway through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7401399440798023680\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a post on LinkedIn<\/a>, The Gardening.club, the AI division of The Sweetshop, the studio behind the ad, said the ad took them \u201cseven intense weeks\u201d to create. They even admitted \u201cthe man-hours poured into this film were more than a traditional production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Melanie Bridge, CEO of The Sweetshop, shared similar comments in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DR3UPHzk6rI\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a post on Instagram<\/a>, saying, \u201cThe hours that went into this job far exceeded a traditional shoot. Ten people, five weeks, full-time. Blood, sweat, tears, and an honestly ridiculous amount of coaxing to get the models to behave and to honor the creative brief shot by shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald\u2019s \u2014 at least, that\u2019s what a now-removed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,146,85,46,43,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-177252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}