AI Killed Marketing: And Advertising Taught It How

We see this headline a lot lately, "AI Killed the Marketing Industry."

It is the kind of provocative, doom-and-gloom statement that populates LinkedIn feeds and instagram reels. But let's be clear: it's not true. Marketing, the psychology of connection and persuasion is not going anywhere.

But the idea that AI killed marketing is far closer to the truth than most people in the industry want to admit. Here is the quiet part out loud: AI did not wake up one day and decide to attack the marketing industry. We spent the last fifteen years drawing the plans, finding the weak spots, and teaching it exactly how to strike.

If a piece of software can suddenly replicate large swaths of a multi-billion-dollar industry, we have to stop blaming the software and start looking at the syllabus. Advertising did not just get disrupted; it taught its replacement everything it knows.

https://acqui.ai/blog/ai-killed-marketing/