Marketers hope that using AI technology will cut down on time spent producing creative assets, allowing them to cut costs — or scale up their operations. In the campaign to cut weeks into hours, however, hidden costs remain.
Top talent is scarce; human oversight and meddling eats into newly gained margins; and realizing meaningful economies of scale can mean investing considerable cash and time upfront in order to build a working creative assembly line.
Though difficult to assign a dollar value against, each of them represent an underwater rock that might hole an AI-assisted creative team below the waterline.
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