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"Ad is just a semantic for control and decisions. Right now, we as human beings are the product." When advertising enters the AI conversation, it does not just change a business model. It changes who controls the answers — and whose values shape them. ChatGPT processes 2.5 billion daily prompts. Advertisers are overwhelmingly global brands reflecting developed world priorities. And the Global South — home to the largest concentration of users — is not the customer. It is the data source. The product being mined. AIFOD's Weekly AI Series brings together three powerful voices to confront what AI advertising really means for the developing world: C. S. B. Charles, Ph.D., S.M.Arch.S., M.S.P.A., Former Director of Academic Affairs, UWI Five Islands Campus Godson Ugochukwu, SAN, FCIArb., Managing Partner, Fortress Solicitors Vibhav Mithal, FHCA, Associate Partner, Anand and Anand From the blurred line between an AI answer and a paid placement, to how contextual prompts are being converted into advertising intelligence, to why regulation — federated across developing nations — is the only credible defence against a system designed to influence before it informs. The developing world has leverage. The question is whether it will use it — before the decisions are made for it. Join us at the AIFOD Geneva Summit 2026, August 12–14, 2026 at the General Assembly Hall, United Nations Office at Geneva. Find out more at af.net #ChatGPTAds #AIGovernance #AIFOD #WeeklyAISeries

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