Ten days out from Cannes Lions, Dan, Toby, and Chmiel try to work out whether anything has changed in the year since AI took over every panel and pitch deck. Their answer: not really. To make the point, they ran hundreds of Cannes sessions through Doma and pulled the ten platitudes the industry is about to repeat for a week straight — "AI will augment, not replace creativity," "trust is the new currency," "the future is human plus the machine." Dan does a lot of groaning. Under the groaning is a question worth sitting with: at a festival built on creativity, where did the creativity go?
Details of the show:
Whether anything material has shifted in the year since AI swallowed every panel and pitch, and Toby's case that the tech mostly forced the industry to look at its own dysfunction
The ten platitudes Doma pulled from hundreds of Cannes sessions, and why a week of hearing them on a loop is its own kind of exhaustion
Dan on the missing creativity — Flash, mobile, even NFTs had real creative energy, and AI so far hasn't
Agentic shopping carts, Google "closing the internet," and why people trust a brand's cart more than a tech company's
Human plus machine sounds good and often plays worse than either one alone, from NBA refs to Premier League VAR
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