Agency Owner Worried About AI Doing Almost Everything
Agency Owner Asks AI To Write Post About Being Worried AI Is Doing Everything
CLEVELAND, OH. Expressing deep concern that artificial intelligence was now handling nearly every part of his business, local marketing agency owner Derek Fensky, 44, reportedly asked an AI assistant Monday to write a heartfelt online post about how worried he was that AI was handling nearly every part of his business.
“I just feel like something human is being lost,” read the post, which Fensky approved after asking the AI to “make it sound more like me, but sadder.” The AI then generated five alternate versions, which Fensky A/B tested in three subreddits.
According to sources close to the agency, Fensky’s company now uses AI for research, thumbnails, video editing, SEO, client reports, invoicing and, as of last Thursday, its weekly team meeting, which consists of two AI note-takers summarizing each other.
“The whole point of marketing is to stand out,” said Fensky, reading from a list of talking points his AI had prepared for him moments earlier. “But how can anyone stand out when everyone has access to the same tools? I asked the tool and it said that was a great question.”
Fensky said he has begun offering clients two tiers of service: a premium human-crafted package for $3,000 a month and a budget AI-assisted package for $100, both of which, he admitted, are produced by the same chatbot in different fonts.
“Honestly, I’m not sure what the future holds for agencies like mine,” Fensky said, before pausing to let an AI tool generate a more confident version of that sentence. “Correction: agencies like mine are uniquely positioned to lead in the age of intelligent automation.”
At press time, the post had received 312 replies, nearly all of them written by AI tools telling Fensky not to worry.