AI generated ads are more effective, but people don't like them.

Study finds that AI generated ads are more effective, but people don’t like them.

Some good old revealed preference.

The 🤖 says:

Ads fully created by visual genAI achieved about a 19% higher click-through rate than human-created ads. However, when ads disclosed that they were generated using AI, click-through rates dropped by about 32% relative to human-created ads.

🔗 Paper: The Impact of Visual Generative AI on Advertising Effectiveness by Hyesoo Lee, Vilma Todri, Panagiotis Adamopoulos, Anindya Ghose