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In recent decisions involving companies in different industries, NAD has sketched out a practical roadmap for how advertisers should (and shouldn’t) talk about AI. Here are four lessons from those cases.
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Consumers already have more information than they know what to do with, so adding another marketing message rarely solves the problem.
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In recent decisions involving companies in different industries, NAD has sketched out a practical roadmap for how advertisers should (and shouldn’t) talk about AI. Here are four lessons from those cases.
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Consumers already have more information than they know what to do with, so adding another marketing message rarely solves the problem.
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