The first AI generated super bowl ad is here?

I think that female bot is demeaning to women. I mean female robots.

As robots goes "it" is easy on the eyes. Sorry...that was sick. Very very sick.

The First Mainly AI-Generated Super Bowl Ad Is Here, for Better or Worse

The Svedka spot features LLM robots and synthetic people. Get ready for the Slopper Bowl?

By Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter

February 3, 2026

The fembot has been prompted.

Svedka’s famous robot character, gone from pop culture for nearly 13 years, has returned to the brand’s ad campaigns recently and will now appear in a Super Bowl commercial. The catch? Pretty much the whole spot has been created with AI.

The 30-second commercial features Fembot and her new companion, Brobot, as they dance in front of a group of human partiers while discovering Svedka products within their casing, in a video that was almost entirely prompted by AI instead of conventionally shot. The pair’s TikTok-y dance was selected from among a slew of user submissions as part of a contest (it was won by a 23-year-old Nashville native named Jessica Rizzardi), which puts the commercial at the nexus of more than just one tech-platform trend.

Svedka owner Sazerac is touting the spot as the first known Super Bowl ad created “primarily” through AI.

“We always knew we were signing up for risk because a vodka ad in the Super Bowl is polarizing to a certain degree,” Sara Saunders, chief marketing officer at Sazerac, tells The Hollywood Reporter. “So the rest of it was ‘we might as well create conversation.'”

An even further irony: Despite the AI auspices, the ad is meant to suggest the importance of putting down the tech and getting out there to dance and meet people the analogue way. (The message is subtly coded when Brobot drinks Svedka and short-circuits.) “The entire idea of the campaign is that the robots have returned to remind the humans to be more human,” Saunders says. “Our message is ultimately pro-human.”

Vodka is indeed a bit of a lift for a broad Super Bowl ad — the game usually features beer commercials, not plugs for harder drinks (Smirnoff is joining Svedka as the first vodka brand to advertise at the game in three decades). And because vodka itself isn’t a product with as many built-in possibilities as some other products, the company decided to lean in to the techno aspects. “It’s odorless, it’s colorless — we needed something that would go the other way,” says Saunders. The AI shaping of the robots’ moves, she added, did offer more humanistically expressive possibilities than conventional animation.

Saunders says the ad didn’t save much money and certainly not a ton of time compared to a conventional shoot; the company chose to make the ad this way because of the aesthetic and thematic value. “For us its never been an efficiency play, it’s been a storytelling play; that’s why we’ve always had strong hands on the keyboard,” she says of the spot, which will air just after halftime.

The milestone is a culmination of an increasing AI presence in Big Sports advertising. Last year’s Super Bowl featured a number of commercials promoting the power of AI, like a Google Pixel commercial in which a father preparing for a job interview is guided through the process by Gemini, while the NBA Finals this summer showcased an online ad for Kalshi that ran through a series of whacked-out AI-generated memes. LLM-driven robots is pretty much the only place this could go.

Other Super Bowl spots this year will use AI, but as more of a tool, like to change the appearance of characters from Jurassic Park or the visage of Guy Fieri. And there will be ads from chatbot companies themselves, like a reported 60-second OpenAI spot. But a full tableau of AI images appears to be Svedka’s domain alone.

GenAI has become an increasingly large force in other big-budget ad campaigns, with equally forceful criticism to match. This holiday season Coca-Cola tried an AI ad that saw a slew of animals reacting to a convoy of beverage trucks. The company said it was the future; many viewers weren’t so sure. (One of the studios involved in the soft-drink ad, Silveside AI, was behind the Svedka ad.)

Advertising experts say there will be more ads made with AI throughout the year as brands seek to cut costs. The Super Bowl, a place not known for cost-cutting, is thus a strange place to see content of a more slop-ified shade. But its presence there will almost certainly open the door to other high-profile uses.

As for this particular airing, a backlash isn’t out of the question, though that doesn’t mean viewers won’t be watching or talking about the ad, which in the upside-down logic of Madison Avenue can sometimes bring more value than a genially tolerated ad that everyone forgets.

Asked about the potential for criticism, Saunders makes few bones. “We expect it and we welcome it,” she says, smiling. “We think that [the question of humans versus technology] is a dialogue we should be having no matter which side you’re on.”