Olympics fans are all mad at the Google AI commercial known as Dear Sydney

This ad isn’t good.

If you’ve been watching 2024 Paris Olympics coverage on NBC and its other networks, you might have seen the Google ad that is making people mad.

It’s called “Dear Sydney.” It depicts a father talking about his daughter, who is a huge fan of Team USA hurdler Syndey McLaughlin-Levrone. So she writes the track athlete a letter about how inspiring she is … but he has her use Google’s Gemini AI to help find the right words to express that.

That’s not great! She should express herself instead of leaning on artificial intelligence, right? That’s what a lot of folks have said on X (formerly Twitter):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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