[cgijoe]

Remember the point of an ad. It's to be memorable, and to get people talking about it. Google wants people talking about Gemini. Well, here we are. I think Google won in this instance. But yes, the ad content is very bad.

[prepend]

We’re talking about how Google sucks and is stupid.

I don’t think that’s what they wanted.

[fnord77]

there's no bad publicity

[shrimp_emoji]

But the commercial was about black people. Frankly, I think a big portion of this "I hate the ad" noise is just thinly-veiled racist dog whistling.

[jhanschoo]

I feel like there is a material difference when the conversation is about how your product is so hostile that they want to regulate it out of existence.

[xg15]

I mean, by that logic MS couldn't have done better with Tay a few years ago. People were definitely talking about that one...

[fzzzy]

Sorry to make you feel old, but Tay was over 8 years ago.

[kurthr]

People are trying to bring back Clippy, because nostalgia for when bad wasn't quite as terrible.

[aleph_minus_one]

> I mean, by that logic MS couldn't have done better with Tay a few years ago.

I was honestly disappointed that Microsoft shut down Tay because they feared reputation damage. So yes, this was in my opinion good advertising, and a bad handling of the outcry from Microsoft's side.

I guess Microsoft wants to target a different audience ...