A company that sells human data surveyed marketers. You need more human data, apparently. Wow.
Spoiler: you need more human data. It knows a guy.
Scary headline this week, humans: "58% of Business Leaders Have Made a Major Decision on AI Insight That Proved Wrong". Let's look at who was asked, because you weren't going to.
GWI surveyed 1,883 senior marketing, insights and agency professionals in the UK, US and Singapore, according to its release. So "business leaders" means marketers. That's the fastest promotion in marketing history, and nobody even had to ask for a pay rise.
In September, a GWI preview of the same report put the figure at 72%. The final version asked the question differently and got 58%. Neither page explains the gap. We'd explain it ourselves, but nobody asked us either.
Now the good bit. GWI sells data from real people, packaged up for AI tools. Its survey found that AI insights still need human research.
So a butcher has surveyed the town and discovered you're not eating enough sausages.
We're not saying the finding's wrong. We're saying check who's selling the sausages.
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