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The pun in this follow-up makes the whole mixup worthwhile: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4n4l1yyvro

"'We're not going to run from it': Sydney Marathon laughs off medal error"

I guess they are laughing it off because it was another Allianz sponsored stadium depicted, and they got the OK from Allianz to make the joke as it is free attention.

If the AI design had chosen a non-Allianz branded location I bet the response would be different.

The race has nothing to do with the stadium, other than running past it. They don’t have to get permission from anyone. Also, there’s no evidence that AI was involved, it could have just as easily been some designer googling for “Allianz Stadium” and illustrating the first thing that came up.

Years ago I was doing internal login pages for pay day loan insurance saas. Decided to put their logos to avoid mixups. Just googled. One was named Vision, copied logo from https://www.visions.ca figuring they did land on the side. Couple years later I realized my mistake & fixed, nobody else had said anything

Feels kind of pathetic high-schooler level response... "oh well, we're just going to laugh it off, please join us. Enjoy your sloppily* made medal!"

* whether AI-assisted or just lazy human slop that went unnoticed up all the chain.

My own footnote reminds me of this other slop: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/starbucks-sout...

> It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the marketing material.

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