Sam Altman Says AI Will Handle “95%” of Marketing Work Done by Agencies and Creatives
Marketing AI Institute
Interview for the book and online community 'Our AI Journey' by Adam Brotman and Andy Sack
“95% of what marketers use agencies, strategists, and creative professionals for today will easily, nearly instantly and at almost no cost be handled by the AI”
Sam Altmanreported 5 March 2024- What you'll lose4/5
Most of what agencies, strategists and creatives do, 'at almost no cost'.
- Condescension2/5
Whole professions reduced to a line item.
- Tone-deafness3/5
Said to marketers, about their own jobs.
- Doom2/5
A profession's end, forecast cheerfully.
- Hypocrisy0/5
None on record.
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The occasion
Interview for the book and online community 'Our AI Journey' by Adam Brotman and Andy Sack, reported 5 March 2024.
Context
The authors asked what AGI will mean for consumer brand marketers building ad campaigns. Altman answered that most of what agencies and creative professionals do would be done by AI, and added that AI would test creative against real or synthetic focus groups.
Crowd reaction
Critical commentary
Content Marketing Institute's headline is 'The Problem With AI Headlines': it says it is 'hard to raise a trillion dollars in venture money... without whipping up a little clickbait' and that creative professionals ask whether they will be knifed in the back; CMSWire calls it 'totally dramatic'. Mild, trade-press reaction.