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There’s a Growing Fault Line Between Marketing Ambition and Procurement Logic in the Age of AI

Collective Co-Founder Steve Barnes has written for Marketing Procurement iQ on the widening gap between how AI content is sold and how it actually performs. His argument: the problem is not AI, it is the buying model. Speed and cost dominate the conversation, when the real value sits in ownership, accuracy, and reusability.