“All of the buffoons excited by the prospect of AI taking over all our writing — report summaries, data surveys, children’s letters, all tossed into the same pile indiscriminately — are missing the point in a spectacular manner. Do you know what writing is?”
(Word is that this ad is being taken out of the rotation, but not unlike the Apple “Crush” ad, the fact it made it through all the approvals and bureaucracy to an extremely expensive public release reveals a broad span of individuals who are frighteningly out of touch.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/31/google-gemini-ai-dear-sydney-ad-olympics-satire/