Google was criticized for using AI to write a fan letter to an Olympic athlete.
The ad depicted a little girl and her dad using the tool to write a fan letter to an Olympic athlete. Google pulled an ad it showed during the Olympics which touted its AI chatbot Gemini writing a fan letter to an athlete.has pulled an Olympics ad for its chatbot Gemini from airwaves following backlash for the way it depicts a little girl using artificial intelligence to write a fan letter.
The ad, titled "Dear Sydney," showed a girl's dad prompting the AI chatbot to help write a letter to her favorite athlete, U.S. hurdler and sprinter Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. Google launched"Gemini, help my daughter write a letter telling Sydney how inspiring she is," the father said in the ad, prompting Gemini.
Google previously defended the ad. However, backlash continued to gain stream as people accused the company of encouraging the use of automation instead of authenticity, particularly with children. "I flatly reject the future that Google is advertising," Shelly Palmer, professor of advanced media at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, wrote in a widely-circulated. The technology presents a "monocultural future where we see fewer and fewer examples of original human thoughts," she wrote.showed a hydraulic press machine crushing music instruments and paint cans to reveal its new iPad Pro.
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