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Speaker 1: Caalaroka Shark Media. Hi there, I'm shutting back with five

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good news Christmas stories. Now, parents, Sanna sent me a

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message that will be story number five. He wants to

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surprise the children, so your children should not hear story

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number five. You're paying attention. I'll remind you again when

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we get a little closer. McDonald's pulled one of their

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Christmas ads after the Internet decided was terrible. It was

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a spot made with Generative AI. It went live on

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McDonald's Netherlands YouTube channel on December sixth. Within hours, viewers

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were calling it creepy, poorly edited, and one said it

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was the most awful ad I've seen this year. By

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December ninth, McDonald's quietly removed the video and told BBC

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News the whole thing was an important learning as they

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figure out how to use AI without horrifying people now.

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The ad had shown a series of holiday mishaps under

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the tagline the most terrible time of the Year, implying

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the Christmas is better spent with McDonald's, which might have

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worked if the characters in the ad didn't look like

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they were assembled from leftover dreams of malfunctioning robots. One

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coment wrote, no actors, no camera team. Welcome to the

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future of filmmaking, and it sucks. The Guardian was wondering,

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can AI actually pick gifts that feel thoughtful, personal, and

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even remotely human well after the McDonald's disaster. Be careful

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here to find out. They asked chat gpt to present

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ideas for a middle aged man who enjoys running and photography. Wait,

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I'm a middle aged man who enjoys running. I mean,

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I like photography, but I wouldn't call myself a photography buff,

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but I do run. Okay, ideas for a middle aged

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man who enjoys running and photography. The suggestions were a

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canon lens from Argos for about one hundred and fifty bucks,

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a tennis racket sensor for about seventy five bucks, and

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recycled camera bag for under thirty five bucks, which the

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bot insisted was the ideal present. None of that good

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for a runner, there, chat gpt it also suggested ideas

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like tennis coaching, whiskey tasting or live mute. None of

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that's running. Gift. Ideas for a woman who likes beauty

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and fitness were somewhat generic as well. They picked a

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moisturizer set and a candle. So then they tried google Gemini.

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For a man who likes chess video games reading a techno,

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it suggested a chess strategy book, a Bandcamp gift card,

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and a hot sauce tasting kit. I wouldn't mind a

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hot sauce tasting kid. Santa very very busy this weekend.

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I mean he's got to finish up and check his

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list one more time. He's also going to jump on

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the radio. At the University of Scranton's amateur radio station

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W three us R, they're hosting CQ Santa, an open

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call in which Santa will invite Ham radio operators from

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around the world to join him. Parents and children are

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welcome to the fifth floor of the Loyalist Science Center

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today from seven thirty to nine pm. The offices and

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the radios will be staffed by W three USR volunteers.

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Santa will be responding to your Ham radio broadcast in

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real time. That's fun. At Anderson Air Force Base in Guam,

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airman from the US and Canada, we're working on Operation

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Christmas Drop, the Defense Department's longest running humanitarian mission. The

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airmen prepared hundreds of brightly decorated supply bundles two hundred

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and seventy, which included drawings of Christmas trees, Santa sleighs elves,

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basically anything festive enough to soften the blow of a

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heavy box landing in your village from the sky. Inside

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the heavy boxes landing in your village, or essentials like food, water,

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medical supplies, fishing gear, clothing, and even toys. This mission

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is now in its seventy fourth year. It started back

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in nineteen fifty two and a B twenty nine crew

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flying near Guam spotted islanders waving from below. They decided

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to drop supplies as a goodwill gesture. All these years later,

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it now supports fifty six thousand people across fifty nine islands.

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The first bundle went into a C one to THREEJ

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super Hercules from Yakota Air Base. Pilots say the moment

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the planes approach their destinations is unforgettable. Families waving, jumping

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and celebrating as the bundles float down. Spokesperson said, Beyond

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the food, tools, fishing gears, supplies and gifts deliver something

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far more valuable, the spirit of compassion that defines the

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Christmas season. Okay, parents. Don't forget. If you're listening with children,

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stop now, Okay, don't get mad at me. Santa's got

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a secret message. Stop okay, final warning parents. This message

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is for parents only. It's from Santa. Santa does not

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want the children to hear this message, so please stop

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the podcast if you're listening with your kids everybody else.

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A Santa Claus parade in Ontario got an unexpected twist

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when one resident decided to go full grinch. Kids are

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gone right. One house put up a bunch of signs

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in the window declaring Santa is fake, which of course

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he's not. Other untrus include your parents are Sana, Santa

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isn't real, and your family buys your presence. All fake

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news complaints poured in through phone calls, online messages, and

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in person reports to officers working the parade. Police spoke

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with the homeowner and the signs were eventually removed. The

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police said it's not illegal to be a grinch, but

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it's nicer for everyone to try to embrace the season

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during big community events. You know, sometimes you don't have

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have to go out of your way to be a jerk.

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Those are five good news stories for today. I'll see

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tomorrow