Google pulls AI ad for Olympics following backlash

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Google pulled an ad it showed during the Olympics that touted its AI chatbot Gemini writing a fan letter to an athlete. Google 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. However, backlash continued to gain steam 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 Universitys S.I. In a recent commercial, Apple showed a hydraulic press machine crushing music instruments and paint cans to reveal its new iPad Pro.

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