An AI video lampooning McDonald’s disastrous AI video commercial

Dec 13, 2025

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A few days ago, McDonald’s Netherlands posted an absolutely horrid AI-generated Christmas ad. Link to the Boing Boing article by Rob Beschizza here.

The video was so unsettling, and generated such terrible backlash, McDonald’s pulled the ad.

On 9 December McDonald’s Netherlands removed the video, adding in a statement to BBC News that the moment served as…

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