Cartoon: When Automation Goes Too Far

Recent reports on data science automating marketing prompted this cartoon:



Computer:

Generating and sending Hyper 
Personalized Beer ad for 
Rob Draper for 16:23 pm , 
Apr 30, 2025

Former Data Scientist:
"It was bad when Marketing automated creating the ads,
but they went too far when they automated watching the ads"

This cartoon was ably drawn by Jon Carter.

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