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Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction

David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

TechCrunch AI· Amanda Silberling·Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 4:28 PM UTC

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