Digiday·2026-04-10

Future of Marketing Briefing: The ad industry has an AI label problem

People no longer trust what they see, and the ad industry hasn’t agreed on what honesty looks like in response. Does an AI-generated background warrant a label? What about a synthesized soundtrack? Or does the threshold only kick in when it s a human face, a product claim or a body that never existed? These feel like mundane distinctions until you factor in what labelling actually costs. Research

人们不再相信他们所看到的一切,而广告行业尚未就何为“诚实”达成一致。人工智能生成的背景是否需要标注?合成音轨呢?抑或只有当涉及人脸、产品声明或从未存在过的身体时,才需要达到标注门槛?这些似乎是微不足道的区别,直到你考虑到实际标注的成本。研究