Google Pulls Controversial ‘Dear Sydney’ TV Spot in Which Dad Uses AI to Write Daughter’s Fan Letter 

Google has pulled from NBC Universal’s Paris Olympics broadcasts a commercial in which a father uses AI to write a fan letter from his young daughter to American track and field star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

While Dad declares himself to be “pretty good with words,” “this has to be just right,” he stresses.

So he asks Google’s Gemini AI gizmo to “help my daughter write a letter telling Sydney how inspiring she is” (while also being “sure to mention that my daughter plans on breaking her world record one day.