The Morning After: Apple apologizes for its iPad Pro ad that crushed human creativityIn the face of AI coming for creatives.
Apple has apologized for its Crush! ad, which sparked a furious backlash among artists, musicians, and other creators. AdAge reports Apple said the video “missed the mark,†and it has scrapped plans to run the commercial on TV. The video…
Apple has apologized for its Crush! ad, which sparked a furious backlash among artists, musicians, and other creators. AdAge reports Apple said the video “missed the mark,†and it has scrapped plans to run the commercial on TV. The video shows a series of musical instruments and other tools for human expression, including a guitar, drums, trumpet, amplifiers, record player, TV and much more being crushed to “All I Ever Need Is You†by Sonny and Cher. The crusher pulls up to reveal an iPad. Tonally, you could see how it could be misconstrued.
Apple is rumored to have more AI tricks planned for its next WWDC, while this new iPad Pro has a chip that boasts a lot of AI power, all with the looming threat of AI to creatives.
But  and imagine I’m using my indoor voice, here  it’s just an ad . However, Apple is such a huge company that it wields a huge amount of influence. And everyone is watching.
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In a rambling interview, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey claimed Bluesky was “literally repeating all the mistakes†he made while running Twitter. Dorsey’s complaints seem to boil down to two issues. First, he never intended Bluesky to be an independent company, with its own board and stock and other vestiges of a corporate entity. Instead, his plan was for Twitter  as it was called  to be the first client to take advantage of the open-source protocol Bluesky created.
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Based on reporting by www.engadget.com.