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[+] 132 points 11 months ago* (21 children)
  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Bad press for AI is good even if McDonald's gets some sort boost from the controversy (I don't think they will).

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  • [+] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I pretty sure McDonald's made the commercial purely for the "we used AI" stock market bump. It will have no effect on their sales and they know it and here's why:

    There's hardly any actual food in the commercial. (Probably because the AI refused to make anything that wasn't disgusting and nauseating. It's called "AI slop" for a good reason.). The tried and true method of fast food ads is close ups of slow motion food porn.

    Plus no one can afford to eat fast food anymore. The one nearest to me has like two people working in it and is a ghost town. 5 years ago it was fully staffed, 24/7 operating hours and you had to wait in line no matter what time it was. It was always crowded.

    I think this represents a shift away from advertising to customers towards advertising to the stock market. Theoretically they could stop selling food and just use their IP as a speculation asset. The stock market is broken and you even don't need to make a profit to keep your share price high. A literal infinite money glitch. Who knows what will happen when that comes crashing down but they don't seem too worried about it. I'm worried though.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    This does not make me want mcd's.

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    yeah this doesn't effect me at all. there are enough other reasons not to buy it

    • it's shit now

    • it's expensive now

    • service sucks now

    • it's american

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    It's shit NOW? it's always been shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    nah like eight years ago a jr chicken was tasty and a decent price. good value.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Just because it tasted good to you doesn't mean it was actually good food. Most parmesan cheese in the US is largely wood pulp. Yum right?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I didn't say it was good, and definitely didn't say that it was healthy or quality. only that it was good value, and obviously in the context of fast food which is inherently neither healthy nor quality and so that does not need to be stated

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