{"id":133,"date":"2026-08-02T18:23:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xpd.co.nz\/?p=133"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:24:00","slug":"ai-advertising-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xpd.co.nz\/index.php\/2026\/08\/02\/ai-advertising-why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Advertising &#8211; why not ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So AI is doing anything and everything these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I use it myself for some work tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for some reason, there is a group of people who lose their shit because someone has used AI to create some advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not have a problem with AI being used for advertising as long as :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Its not falsifying a product &#8211; ie: a hamburger &#8211; don&#8217;t use AI to generate a &#8220;perfect&#8221; burger.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Its not pretending to be something its not &#8211; ie: &#8220;Send me a pic of your dog and I&#8217;ll do a pencil drawing of it for $50&#8221; &#8211; then feed it to AI to do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone using AI to advertise an event via a poster, who cares ? Long as the information on the poster is correct, I don&#8217;t have an issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I contacted one of these &#8220;pic to pencil drawing&#8221; people and asked why they were charging for something AI can do for free &#8211; I even used MS Copilot to do the same job, took 30s and cost nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I never got a response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI has its place and usefulness, long as its being used honestly, there shouldn&#8217;t be any issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PS: This post was bought to you by AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, not really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So AI is doing anything and everything these days. I use it myself for some work tasks. But for some reason, there is a group of people who lose their shit because someone has used AI to create some advertising. I do not have a problem with AI being used for advertising as long as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[59,58],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","tag-advertising","tag-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpd.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpd.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpd.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpd.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpd.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xpd.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/xpd.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpd.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpd.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpd.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}