Marketers warm to AI, but creative challenges and legal risks still loom

No doubt, generative AI tools have optimized the creative process, edging marketers closer to personalized content at scale. But not all marketers are sold on AI for final campaign assets, especially ones with human likeness.

While generative AI has been used by the industry at large to produce everything from pitch decks to campaign assets, creative and legal challenges are preventing full adoption, agency execs say — and not to mention the risk to brand reputation if shoppers feel the creative is false advertising.

“That missing layer of authenticity can create dissonance, which is a risk we don’t believe is worth taking for our clients or their audiences,” said Kate Wolff, founder and CEO of Lupine Creative agency, which has no plans to use AI-generated human likeness in final ad spots for clients, which have included Spotify, LG and Colgate-Palmolive.

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Media Briefing: Overheard at the Digiday Publishing Summit, September 2025 Google search edition

This week’s Media Briefing recaps what publishers had to say about Google’s changes to its search experience and results page — and its impact on their referral traffic and their relationship with the tech giant — during the Digiday Publishing Summit’s closed-door town hall sessions.

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Overheard at DPS, Google search edition

Earlier this year, media executives got together at the Digiday Publishing Summit (DPS) in March to voice their frustration with declining referral traffic. It seems not much has changed since then.

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