Forty minutes. That’s how long legal’s presentation was about training data liability, copyright ambiguity, and “reputational risk in the current regulatory environment.” Forty minutes to dismantle a quarter’s worth of work building a comprehensive proposal for our marketing department to adopt AI image and video generation. I ran pilots. Documented results. Got buy in from my direct leadership. Built comparison matrices of the best ai models available and ran cost projections showing we could cut external creative agency spend by roughly 30% while increasing output volume. All of that versus a forty minute slide deck about waiting for “more clarity” which effectively means waiting forever because regulatory clarity on generative AI could take years. And here’s the part that makes me want to scream into a pillow: our biggest competitor just launched a campaign that’s clearly using AI generated visuals across their social channels and it looks incredible. My VP noticed and asked me why we aren’t doing that yet. Had to bite my tongue and not say “because our legal team is allergic to anything newer than email.” I get that legal has legitimate concerns, I really do. But there’s a difference between managing risk and being paralyzed by it and right now we’re firmly in paralysis territory while everyone else moves forward. submitted by /u/professional69and420
Originally posted by u/professional69and420 on r/ArtificialInteligence