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Questions are the Key to AI and Ethics

Mindful Marketing

” It was a question I heard while watching Bloomberg business one February many years ago that helped inspire me to write about ethical issues in marketing. population, ranging from four-year-olds to ninety-four-year-olds, watched the last Super Bowl, everyone should be asking, “Are the ads ethical?”

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93 Ethics Issues for Thanksgiving Dinner Discussion in 2023

Ethical Voices

As Thanksgiving approaches, I wanted to take a minute and just say how thankful I am to the outstanding students in my Public Relations Ethics class (COM525) as Boston University. We start every class by discussing ethical issues we have seen or read about over the past week. And only a few deal with sports…. . Disclosure?

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AI Ethics Need Time

Mindful Marketing

However, sports don’t always imitate life. Most of us have heard of at least some ethical infractions attributed to AI that range from the art tool Midjourney slyly outfitting Pope Francis in a longline white puffer coat to complaints that an uncensored chatbot continually offends human decency.

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The State Of AI In PR: Takeaways From Muck Rack’s 2024 Report

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

While] only 6% of pros at brands think that’s the right move,” this calls to mind larger conversations around transparency and ethics. It’s similar to what we saw with Sports Illustrated, which admitted in December 2023 to using AI to generate author profiles without informing readers or crediting the AI.

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We Must Confront the Uncomfortable Truths – Roger Bolton

Ethical Voices

He discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: It’s great to be with you, Mark. Thinking over your career, what is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted at work? If you want to do sports or celebrity, a lot of them do great, somebody needs to go do that. What about in terms of privacy?

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Why public relations must wake up to wearables

PR Conversations

We are not just talking about a few people sporting Google Glasses, or measuring their heartbeats via the latest wristband or smart watch. Yet I wonder how well equipped practitioners are when it comes to deal with the ethical dimensions we will find ourselves exploring? The wake up call.

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Dawn of the Intelligently Automated Agency

PR 20/20

Artificial intelligence is accelerating change in the marketing industry, and your career: Consumers will demand greater personalization , while wanting to control their data and privacy. This is the same approach, and technology, used by major media companies to write earnings reports, sports stories and election results.

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