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Why Storytelling Is Now the Most Valuable Skill in Tech
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AI Slop, Consumer Backlash & the Premium on Human Craft
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The flood of AI slop has triggered a measurable cultural reaction. Nearly a third of consumers now say they're less likely to choose a brand that uses AI-generated advertisements — a number that signals AI content has become synonymous in many minds with brain death, the death of craft, the death of a real point of view [1] — Scott Galloway "Nearly a third of consumers avoid AI-generated ads: Nearly a third of consumers say they are less likely to choose a brand that uses AI-gen…" 16:27 . Galloway offers design as a clean empirical proxy: even after Sora and other AI image-generation tools arrived, tech companies as a share of their total workforce employ more designers than ever before, because genuinely human-centered visual craft has become the differentiating signal in a sea of machine-made aesthetics. The economic logic is simple: in a world of infinite competent content, scarcity is a genuine human perspective delivered with skill, and scarcity gets priced accordingly.
Nearly a third of consumers say they are less likely to choose a brand that uses AI-generated advertisements.
Galloway's son, walking to Kensington, refused to use AI to find a coffee shop. His reason: 'I don't want to be reliant on AI for simple things.' Galloway draws an analogy to testosterone replacement therapy — leaning on AI for creative work suppresses your brain's own creative output, just as exogenous testosterone suppresses natural production.
