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Our AI Principles, Part 4: We Think Beyond the End of the Training Data

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Anyone working with AI today quickly finds themselves in a deceptive comfort zone: everything sounds coherent, everything seems complete, everything seems somehow “right.” And yet none of it is new.

Machine thinking ends where creativity begins: with dreaming.

While AI models are fed huge amounts of data from the past, we are shaping the future. Our task is not to regurgitate familiar patterns, but to break them down in a targeted manner – with curiosity, empathy, and imagination.

We don’t rely on averages; we’re ready to put the map aside and venture into uncharted territory.

Creativity is Difference

In communication, what counts is the unexpected, the relevant, the human touch.

Our clients expect strategies that go beyond generic consensus. Content that stands out. This requires more than just training data. It requires attitude, intuition, and dialogue.

How We Use AI

Our method is based on a simple principle: discard 80%, use 20% as inspiration for something new.

  • We use AI in the early creative phase to identify familiar patterns – and then deliberately break away from them. Not to drift aimlessly, but to consciously seek out new paths.
  • We generate variants in order to cut them down. We seek inspiration in order to contradict. We give the machine the pen, but we guide the hand.
  • We combine perspectives, go through feedback loops, and give inspiration room to mature. AI ideas don’t make it into the strategy one-to-one, but each one helps us improve our own.
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PR Also Means Pitching Against the Tide

The difference is most evident in the field of public relations. Editorial offices are now inundated with AI-generated pitches on a daily basis.

Our response to this:

  • Story angles with soul
  • Genuine relationships with journalists
  • Purpose, style, and relevance

After all, good PR has never been just a question of wording, but always a question of relationships.

What Clients Can Expect From Us

We are communicators with a clear mission: empathy, curiosity, and originality.

That is why, for us, “dreaming” is not the opposite of craftsmanship, but its highest form.

We think beyond the end of training data. And we invite our clients to do the same.

Miriam Schwellnus

Miriam Schwellnus ist Expertin für Public Relations, Brand Storytelling und Employer Branding. Als Geschäftsführerin der Berliner PR-Agentur Mashup Communications (gegründet 2009) manövriert sie bekannte wie auch neue Gewässer in der Medienwelt mit Begeisterung.

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