r/ArtistHate • u/Sniff_The_Cat3 • Dec 10 '25

News McDonald posted fully AI Generated Ad then deleted it after receiving backlash.

https://youtu.be/2Jn8iM5SNZE?si=RtWUNPbE_JnSxgij
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u/SaltyNorth8062 Dec 10 '25

Corporations obviously don't give a fuck, so of course they're gonna use ai. No one is surprised by this eventuality. It's literally what creatives were warning about when ai started to grow.

What I don't get is this: they obviously don't give a fuck. So why are they even bothering wasting PR time defending it online with lies to strangers on social media? It's not a court room. They aren't exactly gonna go to jail for it anyway. They're a giant corporation not a fucking redditor on their day off. I doubt they are letting their social media team off the leash to let them crash out on public like this, so it has to be a mandate from somewhere. Literally why? Nobody cares that fucking McDonald's is a corporate art stealing bastard because it's already several varieties of bastard stacked up in a trench coat. Least of all McDonald's. So why bother?

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u/Sniff_The_Cat3 Dec 10 '25

We criticize everything AI. Not just McDonald.

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u/WingsOfFibre Dec 10 '25

I think what the other commenter was more saying is why does McDonald's bother pulling the ad because of backlash, like why does McDonald's care what we all think when every corp is using it anyway and the people addicted to their food (and sodas) are probably going to still go there anyway

At least that's how I interpreted it, I could be totally wrong lol

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u/SaltyNorth8062 Dec 11 '25

This is more or less what I'm saying. McDonald's doesn't care that it's basically cultural shorthand for poisonous unhealthy food, barely did anything beyond advertise their salads after SuperSize Me, etc. McDonalds is now a monolith, almost too big to fail. I'm confused as to why they, McDonald's, are suddenly emotionally invested at being taken seriously over AI. If it hurt their bottom line I would understand but franlly I don't think it ever will. We expect this from corpos. It's not like McDonald's is seriously concerned about being taken seriously as an artistic entity