Apple and Samsung have reportedly issued cease-and-desist notices to Xiaomi in India for an ad campaign that directly compares the rivals’ devices to Xiaomi’s products. The two companies have threatened the Chinese vendor with legal action, calling the ads “disparaging.” Ads have appeared in local print media and on social media that take pot shots at the competitors’ premium offerings. …
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Apple and Samsung don’t agree on much, but when it comes to Xiaomi’s marketing tactics, the two rivals are suddenly on the same page. The Economic Times reports that both companies have sent cease-and-desist notices to Xiaomi over a series of ads mocking their latest flagships and positioning the Xiaomi 15 Ultra as the superior camera phone. What sparked the …
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Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images From American Eagle to Swatch, brands appear to be making a lot of blunders lately. When actress Sydney Sweeney’s jeans campaign came out last month, critics lambasted the wordplay of good “jeans” and “genes” as tone deaf with nefarious undertones. More recently, an advert from Swiss watchmaker Swatch sparked backlash for featuring an Asian …
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Sydney Sweeney is clapping back at critics who claim she’s cashing in on an oversexualized image. The 27-year-old Euphoria star has become one of the most in-demand faces in Hollywood, fronting blockbuster movies and TV shows while also lending her image to a dizzying number of campaigns. In just the past year alone, the Fifty-Fifty Films founder has done ads …
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Update [Mon 18th Aug 2025, 4:30pm]: It’s now been confirmed that The First Descendant developer Nexon has stolen the likeness of at least one of the content creators featured in its AI-fuelled adverts for the game. DanieltheDemon, who is the content creator first in the video embedded below, responded in the comments to the video: “I have no affiliation nor …
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A streamer has claimed that ads promoting Nexon game The First Descendant are using AI to make it look like he’s promoting them. Over the weekend a series of ads promoting the game appeared on TikTok via the official The First Descendant account. These ads all show a streamer talking about the game, but Reddit user iHardlyTriHard gathered some of the …
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Looter-shooter The First Descendant came under fire over the weekend for some TikTok ads featuring incredibly terrible AI fakes of real streamers endorsing the game. But as grimly bad as the ads might be, publisher Nexon’s excuses are somehow even worse. The First Descendant is a free-to-play shooter that’s been around since June, 2024, entirely failing to set the world ablaze …
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The First Descendant developer/publisher Nexon has been accused of using a series of “embarrassing” AI-generated TikTok advertisements, at least one of which is alleged to have imitated a real content creator. As collated by u/iHardlyTriHard on Reddit by scrolling on their For You Page for just 15 minutes, they came across four ads, along with another two “low effort ads …
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At this point, it’s clear that Artificial Intelligence (AI), whether Generative or Machine Learning, is making its way into video games, even as fans do their best to rally against the use of the systems. In the latest instance of reported AI usage, developer Nexon is being accused of utilizing AI to create fake advertisements featuring nonexistent streamers to help …
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As AI becomes more accessible, it seems we’ve been plagued with an increasing number of AI ads. Lacking both quality and style, these sloppy marketing ploys are hard to ignore, but Skechers’ latest ad might just be the worst offender I’ve seen in some time. The best billboard ads are crafted to make us stop in our tracks, whether that’s …
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