Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending
THE SO WHAT
Using a David Bowie apocalypse track under a feel-good AI ad shows how far marketing is leaning into tension between optimism and existential risk. Brand and comms teams building AI narratives should assume audiences are already primed for this dissonance—overly smooth messaging may land as out of touch.
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