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Coop has done it. Guess has done it, and now Salling Group is beginning to use A.I.-created models as well. A model agency and the Data Ethics Council fear where the trend is headed.

CEO: New trend carries serious consequences for the entire creative industry

Documentation: Screenshot from Kvickly’s circular. Coop, which Kvickly is part of, has been using A.I.-generated models for a year, but does not say whether each individual model is real or computer-generated.
Documentation: Screenshot from Kvickly’s circular. Coop, which Kvickly is part of, has been using A.I.-generated models for a year, but does not say whether each individual model is real or computer-generated.
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Supermarkedskæden Coop har allerede i et år brugt ai-modeller i deres tilbudsaviser. Og nu vil Salling Group, der blandt andet står bag supermarkedskæderne Bilka, Netto og Føtex, også eksperimentere med de kunstige modeller. Fra maj vil de bruge et miks af ai-modeller og ægte modeller i deres reklamer for tøjmærket VRS i deres tilbudsaviser og på de sociale medier for butikkerne Bilka og Føtex.

»Der er ingen tvivl om, at det kommer til at have en konsekvens for os – ikke bare Unique, men hele den kreative branche«, vurderer administrerende direktør Jacqueline Svane fra Unique Models, der repræsenterer mange af de modeller, som optræder i reklamer.

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