Jessica Heygate
Jun 6, 2024

‘The consumer shouldn’t be the guinea pig’: Ad industry cautions against hasty AI rollouts

Google is in hot water again over AI inaccuracies. With ads soon coming to its AI overviews search product, digital advertising executives urge the tech industry to slow down.

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