@itsolelehmann: tbh i'm a massive AI UGC hater. i literally think the whole thing is fraud the point of UGC is that it feels like one h…
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The author criticizes AI-generated User-Generated Content as misleading and promotes 'The Human Admaker' by Icon, a service that offers human-made UGC ads for brands.
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tbh i’m a massive AI UGC hater.
i literally think the whole thing is fraud
the point of UGC is that it feels like one human talking to another.
but AI UGC puts a fake person who never touched the product on screen and asks you to trust them. insanely misleading
so when everyone’s racing toward the same AI slop…
i think the companies leaning harder into human UGC will be the big winners because:
- it converts way better than AI UGC and
- builds trust (instead of making the brand look cheap w/ fake AI slop creators!)
example: Icon just launched a service called “The Human Admaker” that gives brands 6 human-made UGC ads for $999.
they handle:
finding creators shipping products scripts, filming, and editing
then use AI to speed up the work behind the camera while keeping a real human in front of it
TLDR: go slop, you lose. go human, you win
Kennan Jenner (@icon): 3 months ago, I sold my 1st company, Skio, for $105M cash.
Now my 2nd company, Icon, just raised $30M to launch something the world has never seen.
For $1000, we make 6 human creator ads (no AI, 100% real). We find creators, ship products, write scripts, & edit videos.
It’s
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