Google's New Ad Shows a Slopper Meeting the Love of His Life by Surrendering His Brain to the AI's Instructions

We have a new entry in ever-growing canon of "Tech Companies Have No Idea How to Market AI."

Just ask Google. No, seriously: that's the name of tech colossus's newest ad campaign, "Just Ask Google," which is playing everywhere from TV spots to movie theaters.

In a particularly bonkers entry, the premise appears to be that, if you give over decision-making in your personal life to the hands of a large language model owned by a multi-trillion dollar company — there's now a disparaging term for such folks: "sloppers" — even a loser such as thee can find true love.

We wish we were kidding. The ad kicks off by trying to instill some nostalgia by telling us that Ted, our aimless everyman, was born in 1998, the "year of the first Google search." Fast forward to him as a kid, Googling "james bl