Coca-Cola’s new holiday ad turned me off of AI-generated art completely

The ad’s visuals were birthed from nothing by nothing: non-sentient digital code that does not know that it, or the holidays for that matter, exist. This ad had no power to make me wonder, because there was no humanity in it.

In recent months, nothing has made me close a social media app more quickly than when the algorithm starts serving me these generic generative AI images and videos.