McDonald’s AI-generated holiday ad from the Netherlands has been getting all sorts of flak in recent days. But a response video recreating one of the AI actors from the spot to rail against it is the most humiliating punch yet. The response, from an agency called All Trades Co, takes a character from the McDonald’s spot and gives her a full video of her own. She doesn’t hold back in skewering the spot, which the fast-food chain pulled off YouTube earlier this week after criticism from some quart

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