On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents The industry run-regulator, Ad Standards, logged nearly 5,000 complaints across 252 ads this year, and found that ...

A driver has been left with a heavy price to pay after another motorist smashed into his car twice before driving off. Hassan, 29, from Radcliffe was driving in Broughton on Friday evening (December 5 ...

The Netherlands' division of McDonald's has pulled its Christmas advert following online backlash over its AI-generated content. The advert, which was titled "the most stressful time of year," ...

A French supermarket’s Christmas advert is going against the AI trend and it's a hit with millions of people around the world. A French supermarket’s Christmas advert has become a viral sensation and ...

Commercial in Netherlands depicting festival-season chaos at ‘most terrible time of year’ prompted flurry of criticism online McDonald’s says it has removed an AI-generated Christmas advertisement in ...

McDonald's Netherlands has taken down a Christmas advert made with Artificial Intelligence (AI) following online backlash. The 45-second advert was produced with generative AI clips and released ...

The video was branded “awful” for its crude use of AI and message that Christmas is “the most terrible time of the year”. It was released on the fast food chain’s Netherlands Youtube channel on ...

Update: McDonald’s has issued a very strange response to the drama. Thanks to the rise in popularity of generative AI, mainstream companies like Coca-Cola and Google are jumping on the bandwagon to ...

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Some social media users in the Netherlands said they couldn't stomach it, so McDonald's has withdrawn an advertisement generated entirely by artificial intelligence. Entitled “the most terrible time ...