The traditional-versus-AI comparison is useful, and I would add one practical rule for brands trying it for the first time: keep the real product as the source of truth. Start from your best pack shot, lock one presenter for the whole batch, and only vary the hook and the setting. That way you are testing messages, not accidentally testing a slightly different product in every clip. Put prices and offer text on in the edit instead of asking the generator to draw them, keep claims to what you would say in a real creator brief, and label the ad as AI-made where the platform asks. In my experience the win is not one perfect video, it is five honest hook variations by Friday. That is the loop I run in ClickPop, and a real creator still makes sense for the hero piece.