The AI backlash is going to be the main story of next year. You’re going to get tired of hearing about it, and billions is going to be spent on the PR campaign to revive the image of this technology.
And it didn’t have to be this way! They CHOSE to go ‘this stuff is ready, and you must use it NOW’
Pete Fraser
Amazing story about how Starbucks launched a "Tank" marketing campaign in South Korea on the anniversary of a massacre by the military.... including a slogan referencing the beating to death of a student.
AI did it. Emails were signed off unread by managers
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
A botched tumbler promotion on the anniversary of a pro-democracy massacre unleashed a boycott, police investigation and political firestorm
