08/18/2026
From a marketing standpoint consider where you land on AI generated content.
If your demographic is on the younger side, you may be hurting yourself more than helping. As between 18 and 29 years old, almost half see generative AI as doing more harm than good. This gives a negative correlation to your marketing and therefore your product before they even know what you're selling.
Many Americans are having negative reactions to the growing prevalence of generative AI in daily life. In a recent Gallup poll, Americans’ increased familiarity with generative AI coincides with negative attitudes about the technology. This is especially true for young people between 18 and 29, where almost half see generative AI as doing more harm than good.
While this AI backlash has been brewing for the last few years, more companies appear to be directly addressing these concerns. LinkedIn added a “seems like AI slop” button for reporting AI-generated content on the platform, despite still hosting plenty of generative AI tools. Snapchat announced that fully AI-generated videos would no longer be eligible for its discovery feed. Substack recently added an AI detection tool to police writers.
The backlash’s “why” is simple at its core. Many Americans feel like they never consented to any of this. They didn’t ask for Instagram to enable deepfakes on their accounts. They didn’t want Google to push AI-generated answers at the top of search results. They woke up one day to find that generative AI features were stuffed into every corner of all the software they rely on without their consent.
Whether it's AI models scraping your data or noisy data centers popping up in your backyard, the AI revolution seems to be an event happening to us without making us feel like active participants.
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