Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction

TechCrunch· 10h ago· 1 min read

David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

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