Meta's AI ad uses Bowie's 'Five Years' — a song about imminent apocalypse
TyrannosaRex · reddit · 2026-09-12
Meta is running a YouTube ad praising the wonder and humanness of its AI — set to David Bowie's 'Five Years', a song lamenting a certain and imminent apocalypse. The poster argues the choice is deeply ironic, almost echoing warnings that uncontained AI could bring about that very apocalypse, and captured about two-thirds of the ad as evidence.
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