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There's a real backlash against AI content building right now. Mark…
There's a real backlash against AI content building right now. Mark Cuban thinks the dislike gets worse from here. Eric Schmidt got booed at a commencement. Some of the people building AI tools are starting to feel the same resistance they're creating tools for. So here's the question we keep chewing on. If audiences are turning against AI-generated content, does the answer for a busy CEO or VP of Marketing become less automation, or more? One camp says pull back, publish less, make every post obviously human. The other camp says the resistance is really about generic, personality-free content, and the fix is an agent that captures your actual voice and thinking so it never sounds like a machine wrote it. Both can't be the right call for a marketing team that's short on executive time and long on strategy nobody has bandwidth to execute. Which side are you on? If your customers openly disliked AI content, would you cut your automation or double down on making it sound like you?
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