{"id":11701,"date":"2026-02-15T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=11701"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:00:00","slug":"shelf-life-099-does-an-ai-divide-exist-between-corporations-and-creatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=11701","title":{"rendered":"Shelf Life 099: Does an AI Divide Exist Between Corporations and Creatives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/ai-brand-backlash-vs-designer-praise\/\" title=\"Shelf Life 099: Does an AI Divide Exist Between Corporations and Creatives?\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI is everywhere now, and people don\u2019t have mild opinions about it. This article digs into why audiences rage when brands like Coca-Cola or J.Crew use AI, yet celebrate independent designers who use the same tools to create jaw-dropping concept campaigns. Through examples, cultural context, and insight from AI creative director Nana Shatsky, it explores the real issue beneath the backlash: not whether AI is \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cbad,\u201d but who holds the power, who gets displaced, and what AI has come to symbolize in modern creativity.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/ai-brand-backlash-vs-designer-praise\/\">Shelf Life 099: Does an AI Divide Exist Between Corporations and Creatives?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\">DIELINE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/ai-brand-backlash-vs-designer-praise\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is everywhere now, and people don\u2019t have mild opinions about it. This article digs into why audiences rage when brands like Coca-Cola or J.Crew use AI, yet celebrate independent designers who use the same tools to create jaw-dropping concept campaigns. Through examples, cultural context, and insight from AI creative director Nana Shatsky, it explores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[881,3128,3129,3130,3131,3132,620,3133,3134,3135,3136,3137,3138,3139,3140,3141,3142,3143,3144,3145,1486,3146,3147,3148,3149,3150],"class_list":["post-11701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-ai","tag-ai-artists","tag-ai-design","tag-ai-ethics","tag-ai-in-advertising","tag-ai-marketing","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-authenticity","tag-brand-backlash","tag-brand-campaigns","tag-coca-cola-ai","tag-concept-design","tag-consumer-trust","tag-copyright-and-ai","tag-corporate-marketing","tag-creative-direction","tag-creative-ethics","tag-creative-industry","tag-digital-art","tag-future-of-design","tag-generative-ai","tag-instagram-trends","tag-j-crew-ai","tag-social-media-marketing","tag-stolen-ip","tag-visual-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}