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‘AI washing’: firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused
UK companies are pressuring PR firms to rebrand ordinary automation as artificial intelligence to capitalize on AI's popularity. Public relations executives report that businesses in low-tech sectors or those using non-generative automation are demanding to be labeled as AI specialists.
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