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  • Hacker News
  • TCS. Say. no. more.
    by u89012
  • At least it wasn't the 1936 Berlin Olympics stadium...
    by FerretFred
  • Allianz Marketing Head: My son's new favorite website is "Hackernews". They do not run ads, so how can we get the attention of their audience?
    by jansan
  • Someone vibed the medal design
    by lateral_cloud
  • AI slop all the way up to the physical world :D
    by abletterer
  • Model bias towards northern hemisphere
    by seydor
  • That time Ohio issued a license plate with the Wright Flyer flying backward and then the NC DOT razzed them about it:

    https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1048991822/ohio-reverses-cour...

    by js2
  • Right there with the Milwaukee Marathon misspelling “Marathon” on their medals this year.

    https://marathonhandbook.com/milwaukee-marathon-handed-out-4...

    by kgermino
  • 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"

    by evnu
  • 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.

    by netsharc
  • 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.

    by phatfish
  • The government of New South Wales (the Australian state of which Sydney is the capital) commissioned a corporate logo depicting a waratah (the NSW state flower) and got one showing a lotus. They still use it on everything.
    by cjs_ac
  • And they just flat out told everyone who pointed it out -- nope, you're looking at it wrong; and anyway we already paid those consultants so we'd better use it, what?
    by jhy
  • Wow, that always confused me since moving here. I thought I didn't know what a Waratah was, but no, it's the logo that's wrong.
    by crabmusket
  • "Good enough for Australia" is a phrase I frequently heard from Aussies. There seems to be this attitude there that they're a frontier country where one improvises (half asses?) everything.
    by jordanb
  • Logo is https://www.nsw.gov.au/themes/custom/dcs_theme/favicons/sets... whereas the actual waratah looks like https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=waratah
    by contingencies
  • Easy mistake when there are 7 Allianz Stadiums in the world

    https://www.allianz.com/en/about-us/brand/partnerships/stadi...

    And it was probably 8 when they were designing the medal but Palmeiras didn't extend the naming rights contract https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubank_Parque

    by haunter
  • Coulda been worse. At least they showed a Munich stadium and not the Berlin Sportpalast.
    by pseudohadamard
  • Bayern Munich's stadium is one of the more famous in the world. More interesting that 0 people recognised it in the design process.
    by jtari3333
  • I always thought these corporate naming deals for stadiums were gross. I remember when Canadian stadiums had names like "The Coliseum" and "The Skydome" instead of "The Roger's Center".
    by AlexandrB