Let this be the year of itchy, wonky, hand-knitted acrylic holiday ads
Famous Campaigns’ James Herring is about as sick of holiday AI, and AI in general, as I am, which is about as much as everyone else seems to be. In …
Elara Voss: The newest way to clock AI, and the coming of the robot apocalypse
I’m of the sincere assumption no one reading here is of the type to mess around with pretend people — fake testimonials in copy, questionable contributors of content, sloppily assembled …
It’s not a surefire hint for spotting AI writing — it’s annoying.
Words, human- or robot-generated, cannot describe how tired I am of the Surefire AI Tip-Off scavenger hunt. It’s as tedious as, say, the “It’s not [X] — it’s [Y]” construction …
The First Christmas Commercial Ever
Commercialism has been inextricably linked with Christmas going back generations — the first time Guðmundur put up a note in the town square reminding Gjögur he offers the freshest oranges …
Would/Wouldn’ts and Have/Haven’ts, or, What My Feelings About Diegetic Music Taught Me About ChatGPT
So, I get uncomfortable watching actors, as their character, sing onscreen. I think it’s like the whole musical theater thing of, “When you’re too emotional to talk, you sing, and …
Creativity cage match: The human brain vs. ChatGPT
So. In a previous post, I addressed the question of whether it matters if content was written by ChatGPT and came up with the bold, definitive answer of “sometimes no, …
Is ChatGPT cheating? And other boring questions
First off, this is y’all’s fault. I didn’t even want to keep talking about ChatGPT. I wrote one satirical LinkedIn post making fun of all the “how to clock ChatGPT” …
What ECDs need to know about that resume you’re looking at
For an advertising creative currently in a hard-core search for a job (reasonable rates, inquire within), I seem to spend a lot of time producing content that’s so frank as …
NaNoWriMo’s AI BS
NaNoWriMo has come out with a statement of “If you don’t write the novel yourself, we’re cool with that.” And people have things to say about it. NaNoWriMo — National …
ACTUALLY RELATED TO ADVERTISING: Two Olympic ads are big losers
WE’RE BACK, BABY. I do not know WHAT was going on a couple of weeks ago, but it’s over, or at least over enough to let the grumpy, negative side …