Adobe’s generative AI product, Firefly, is still in beta, but that hasn’t prevented Google from agreeing to integrate it with its Bard chatbot. Firefly offers text-to-image, vector re-coloring and text effect capabilities. Adobe has also expanded its Content Authenticity Initiative, which offers credentials to verify the origins of AI-generated or manipulated art.
It’s a rare day that we can say something nice about Meta. But we seem to mention every other company’s generative AI offerings, so it’s only fair to report that they’ve set up an “AI Sandbox” to test new advertiser tools, and have pre-announced several that will make it easier to create different versions of ad materials. Features include text variations, text-to-image background generation, and image cropping. General availability is targeted towards the end of this year.
Of all the problems facing advertising, you might think that its carbon footprint would be pretty far down the list. But at least some people are paying attention, and some of those rely on Scope3 to estimate the carbon footprint of the programmatic supply chain and block high-emissions ad inventory. They just expanded their service to cover open programmatic as well as private marketplaces.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.