The Korean branch of Starbucks used AI to create a marketing campaign, but whoops - this campaign celebrated the May 18th massacre of Korean civilians peacefully protesting a military coup in 1980!

Nobody checked before they launched the ad campaign.

Result: massive protests and boycotts, legal actions against Starbucks, collapse in stock prices, etc.

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