OpenAI’s supposed “leaked” Super Bowl ad featuring ear buds and a shiny orb was a hoax

OpenAI President Greg Brockman commented on X With a tweet She called the story “fake news,” said Lindsay McCallum Remy, an OpenAI spokeswoman books“This is completely fake.”

Looking at it carefully, the fact that the account “Found“The ad was completely new and remarkably comforting. The Reddit account ‘wineheda’ who was behind the original post has now been deleted, but a search of the Internet Archive reveals that just a year ago, the person behind it They are looking to grow their business As an accountant in Santa Monica – it would be a big career shift to suddenly become someone working on OpenAI and Jony Ive ads in time for Super Bowl LX.

Whoever was behind this hoax has been working on it for a while and is close to spreading his story on multiple fronts. Max Weinbach Twitter screenshots From an email he received a week ago proposing to promote a tweet about an OpenAI hardware teaser featuring Alexander Skarsgård, which apparently came with a real payment of $1,146.12. and AdAge Journalist Gillian Follett he tweeted earlier today About a “fake headline” attributed to her, which falsely depicted a story about OpenAI changing its Super Bowl ad, while OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch Mentioned A “completely fake website” trying to back up the same thing.