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Google Withdraws "Dear Sydney" Ad

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Google's 'Dear Sydney' ad has been pulled from NBC's Olympics rotation

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The ad featured a dad talking about his daughter, a huge fan of Olympic track and field athlete Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone .

He uses Google ’s Gemini AI chatbot to help her write a letter to Sydney .

After the ad debuted, a flurry of online commentators on X , Reddit and other platforms criticized the spot.

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54

Informative language

48

Neutral language

72

Article tone

semi-formal

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English

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52

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not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

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short-lived

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