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The Role of Generative AI in the Future of Commercial Personalization

نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان
Liam Parker 1
Eleanor Vance 2
Omar Hassan 3
Chloe Davis 4
1 Ph.D. Candidate in Marketing, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA
2 Professor of Strategic Management, Stern School of Business, New York University, USA
3 Associate Professor of Business Analytics, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, USA
4 Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, USA
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چکیده
The paradigm of commercial personalization is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by the maturation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). For years, hyper-personalization has been the coveted goal for brands seeking to establish meaningful customer relationships and gain a competitive edge in a saturated digital marketplace. However, traditional personalization engines, primarily reliant on discriminative AI models and historical interaction data, are increasingly demonstrating their limitations in scalability, dynamism, and the ability to create truly novel experiences. They excel at recommending what exists but falter at imagining what could exist for an individual customer. This paper addresses the emergent and transformative role of GenAI in overcoming these limitations and charting the future of one-to-one commercial engagement. Through a systematic literature review of 35 academic and technical sources published between 2023 and 2025, this study synthesizes the current state of GenAI-powered personalization. The methodology involves a structured search of academic databases and pre-print archives to identify, screen, and analyze relevant literature. Our findings indicate that GenAI's applications span across the entire customer journey, enabling dynamic content creation (e.g., personalized emails, ad copy, and product imagery), sophisticated conversational commerce agents, and the generation of synthetic user personas for cold-start scenarios. The synthesis also reveals a set of significant challenges, including data privacy concerns, the risk of model hallucination, the potential for perpetuating biases, and the complexities of technological integration. This paper’s primary contribution is a conceptual framework that maps GenAI capabilities to specific personalization functions, offering a strategic guide for practitioners. It concludes by outlining a research agenda focused on ethical implementation, trust-building, and the measurement of ROI in GenAI-driven personalization strategies, positioning GenAI not merely as a tool, but as a core engine of future commercial creativity and customer centricity.
کلیدواژه‌ها
Generative AI
Commercial Personalization
Hyper-Personalization
Customer Experience (CX)
Marketing Technology

عنوان مقاله English

The Role of Generative AI in the Future of Commercial Personalization

نویسندگان English

Liam Parker 1
Eleanor Vance 2
Omar Hassan 3
Chloe Davis 4
1 Ph.D. Candidate in Marketing, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA
2 Professor of Strategic Management, Stern School of Business, New York University, USA
3 Associate Professor of Business Analytics, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, USA
4 Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, USA
چکیده English

The paradigm of commercial personalization is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by the maturation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). For years, hyper-personalization has been the coveted goal for brands seeking to establish meaningful customer relationships and gain a competitive edge in a saturated digital marketplace. However, traditional personalization engines, primarily reliant on discriminative AI models and historical interaction data, are increasingly demonstrating their limitations in scalability, dynamism, and the ability to create truly novel experiences. They excel at recommending what exists but falter at imagining what could exist for an individual customer. This paper addresses the emergent and transformative role of GenAI in overcoming these limitations and charting the future of one-to-one commercial engagement. Through a systematic literature review of 35 academic and technical sources published between 2023 and 2025, this study synthesizes the current state of GenAI-powered personalization. The methodology involves a structured search of academic databases and pre-print archives to identify, screen, and analyze relevant literature. Our findings indicate that GenAI's applications span across the entire customer journey, enabling dynamic content creation (e.g., personalized emails, ad copy, and product imagery), sophisticated conversational commerce agents, and the generation of synthetic user personas for cold-start scenarios. The synthesis also reveals a set of significant challenges, including data privacy concerns, the risk of model hallucination, the potential for perpetuating biases, and the complexities of technological integration. This paper’s primary contribution is a conceptual framework that maps GenAI capabilities to specific personalization functions, offering a strategic guide for practitioners. It concludes by outlining a research agenda focused on ethical implementation, trust-building, and the measurement of ROI in GenAI-driven personalization strategies, positioning GenAI not merely as a tool, but as a core engine of future commercial creativity and customer centricity.

کلیدواژه‌ها English

Generative AI
Commercial Personalization
Hyper-Personalization
Customer Experience (CX)
Marketing Technology
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