The internet hates Coca-Cola’s AI-generated holiday commercial [Video]

AI-generated videos already proliferate on the internet — and now brands are getting in on it. Coca-Cola “reinvented” an old-school holiday-time ad using artificial intelligence, and to say it’s not exactly filling social media with good tidings of comfort and joy would be an understatement.

The video is a new spin on Coke’s “Holidays Are Coming” ad from the 1990s. The original ad features a fleet of Coke trucks decked out in Christmas lights, spreading the holiday spirit as they drive through a snowy town. A namesake song soundtracks the ad, proclaiming, “‘Tis the season, it’s always the real thing.”

The ad has been reproduced before, such as this one from the UK and Ireland in 2020. This year, however, the company used AI to create a new version of “Holidays Are Coming”:

The concept is the same: Coke trucks come to town to bring the magic of the holiday season. These ads include generated animals, including polar bears, a famous Coke holiday symbol…