Meta’s AI promo gets called out for using Bowie’s apocalypse song
cccalum · x · 2026-07-25
Meta’s new AI promo video uses David Bowie’s “Five Years” — a song about an imminent apocalypse.
The post calls out the irony of pairing a “AI is wonderful” message with a track explicitly about the world ending, making the ad itself the joke.
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