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AI is going to be great for spray-and-pray PRs, God help us

More and longer public relations pitches turns out to be another price of the AI Golden Age.

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Phillip de Wet
May 15, 2026
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I am literally studying, in a structured academic way, the unintended consequences of AI systems, even while reporting on the way it upends information symmetry.

And yet, until this week I never realised it is going to get my inbox flooded with long PR pitches.

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