OpenAI Faces Fake Super Bowl Ad Hoax
OpenAI denies a circulating fake 'leaked' Super Bowl ad that purportedly showed Alexander Skarsgård and a hardware orb, after screenshots and a deleted Reddit post spread during Super Bowl LX. OpenAI president Greg Brockman and spokesperson Lindsay McCallum Rémy publicly called the story "fake news" and "totally fake"; reporting found the originating account was new and tied to unrelated prior activity. The hoax used fabricated emails, a fake website, and falsified headlines to lend credibility.
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Official denials and concreteness raise credibility, but limited novelty and shallow reporting constrain broader impact.
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- Read OriginalOpenAI’s supposedly ‘leaked’ Super Bowl ad with ear buds and a shiny orb was a hoaxtheverge.com
