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Breztri's AI-created llama ads break pharma tropes

AstraZeneca's Breztri campaign launches the inhaler for asthma, not just COPD, with animals made entirely by AI; its agency swears it isn't slop.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBreztri's new asthma ads feature a llama, an oryx and a mountain goat in a lanyard working late at the office, and MediaPost says every animal was made entirely with AI.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEdelman's Brian Wood said the last thing they wanted was more slop filling everyone's feeds. Then they generated three animals from nothing.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe campaign is called Llamas at Work. Why a llama, though?

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt comes from LAMA, one of the drug's three components.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThis isn't the ad, it's archive footage of some llamas, so roll it and look at this.

  6. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTwo llamas in a wooden pen. The left one lifts its head, and the right one turns to the camera like it knows we're here.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWatch the right one exit frame. Clean. No goodbye, no two weeks' notice, and a brown llama walks in from the left.

  8. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorReal llamas, no lanyards. I'd give that a nine point four, for being organic.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThose two are the only llamas in this story with a pulse, and neither one has a lanyard.

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