--- title: "Google’s New Ad Shows a Slopper Meeting the Love of His Life by Surrendering His Brain to the AI’s Instructions" description: "You, too, can meet the love of your life if you simply use Google's AI Mode search to do literally everything." date: "2025-08-09" modified: "2025-08-09" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/google-ad-slopper" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Google" tags: - "ai chatbots" - "generative ai" - "Google" - "google search" --- # Google’s New Ad Shows a Slopper Meeting the Love of His Life by Surrendering His Brain to the AI’s Instructions ![You, too, can meet the love of your life if you simply use Google's AI Mode search to do literally everything.]() *\Image: Google / Futurism\* We have a new entry in [ever-growing canon]() of "Tech Companies Have No Idea How to Market AI." Just ask Google. No, seriously: that's the name of tech colossus's newest ad campaign, "Just Ask Google," which is playing everywhere from TV spots to movie theaters. In a [particularly bonkers entry](), the premise appears to be that, if you give over decision-making in your personal life to the hands of a large language model owned by a multi-trillion dollar company — there's now a [disparaging term for such folks](): "sloppers" — [even a loser]() such as thee can find true love. We wish we were kidding. The ad kicks off by trying to instill some nostalgia by telling us that Ted, our aimless everyman, was born in 1998, the "year of the first Google search." Fast forward to him as a kid, Googling "james blunt music video." The song "You're Beautiful" plays as his life, in the form of Google queries, flashes forward until he's an unfortunate 26-year-old, who has a huge house to himself, soul-searching in our age of predatory dating apps and AI sexbots. Tal Bachman's power pop anthem "She's So High" starts playing, for some reason. Ted's just looking for "something cool" to do one night that gets him home at a "reasonable time," so he opens Google's "AI Mode" and asks for just that. The AI recommends attending James Blunt's anniversary tour (which is actually happening as we speak.) He goes to the show and — wouldn't you know it? — runs into the love of his life. "Which is how Ted found something he didn't even know he was looking for," the narrator says. "Turns out, life's full of questions. Luckily, you can Just Ask Google." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=386Cw1vKOfI The chorus of "She's So High" soars, inexplicably, while Ted is supposed to be at the James Blunt show (this ad clearly is also meant to be a tie-in for the English singer's tour, making the decision even more bizarre.) Maybe Google didn't expect us to know the difference between one pop rock song and another. Maybe it's a case of AI hallucination. This lazy ad storytelling earned Google a few clowning-ons in the comments. "'She's So High' isn't a James Blunt song," observed one viewer. "If only technology existed we could use it to research facts like these..." The important question, from a marketing point of view: is anyone convinced by this? Years on, AI companies still don't know how to sell you their shiny toys. AI can write emails for you and look stuff up, and what else? They have to dance around what people actually use these tools for, like having it be their friend (which can have [disturbing consequences]()) or cheating on homework. They also ooze contempt for their audiences — just use our AIs to do everything, you dumb, single shmucks! And maybe stuff will actually happen in your life, for once. Regarding Google's "AI Mode," is being a worse version of a Google search the best that this world-changing technology — which our [entire economy is betting itself on]() — has to offer? And it *is* just an inferior Google search; large language models remain incredibly prone to hallucinating, or making up facts. Speaking of: in a Super Bowl ad this year for its Gemini AI model, the chatbot produced a ridiculous statistic claiming that gouda cheese accounted for 60 percent of the world's cheese consumption (which Google ended up [retroactively correcting](), hoping no one would notice). It also generated text that turned out to be [plagiarized](). And this was in an expensively produced commercial that was supposed to show the AI at its absolute best. If errors are slipping through the cracks here, imagine all the nonsense that's being peddled across the millions of these searches that occur daily. We also can't overlook the "Just Ask Google" ad's insidious implication that Google has been logging Ted's life since he was a kid, back when he was first looking up James Blunt music videos — which is how it knows to recommend he attend the James Blunt tour. With the AI making his life decisions and leading him to meeting his one true love, it's as if Google wants us to know it controls our destinies. **More on Google:** *[If You Ask Google Why It Sucks Now, AI Overviews Will Viciously Bully Google and Itself]()* ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()