I'm seeing more and more AI generated stuff around and about, why does it all look the same?

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ThatThingInTheCorner@reddit

When I see a place that has AI slop posters it makes me not want to go there - when will businesses realise this.

When will people realise that outputs from ChatGPT should never be used as a final product (whether it's text or images), it should just guide you to making that product yourself.

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Ratiocinor@reddit

When I see a place that has AI slop posters it makes me not want to go there - when will businesses realise this.

They won't realise it because it won't matter. You and I are firmly in the minority

Most people will not notice or care at all

Did you know the traditional playing card designs we all know and love actually arose out of a more complicated ornate original design that was once popular? Like German style cards. But here there was an influx of shoddy low quality copies that degraded and butchered the art style and simplified the symbols. Those bastardised card designs became codified as part of our culture, even though they came from the degradation of what came before. If you asked someone why playing cards look so weird they'd be like "what do you mean? They don't look weird they've always looked like that?"

Did you know the only reason pubs traditionally hang pictures outside is because people couldn't read back then? There was no point writing the name of your pub and that you were a public house if no one could read it, instead you hung up a picture of a Red Lion or the Queen's Head or something and said "come meet me at the Red Lion later", and they would look for a building with a picture of a red lion on it. That got codified and became part of our culture too

As much as this pains me to say it, this AI slop is just going to become a part of our culture now and will drive it going forwards. It's inevitable. We can't stop it. Posters will be AI slop, logos will be AI slop. It's so odd to think about but future generations will just think it's normal, like "oh yeah that art style is very 2020s, fun fact, it actually wasn't like that by design the style originates from the early generation of primitive AI they were using at the time, not many people know this"

I'm not sure how I feel about this yet but I do know there's no point fighting it

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Raptori@reddit

I just looked up the "traditional" playing card designs, and while they're ornate and pretty, I'm pretty sure they'd be a massive headache to play with. The "bastardised" designs are simpler, sure, but that provides the benefit of making it extremely clear at a single glance which card each one is, which is the actual purpose of the cards. Could just be a case where the "cheap" version was objectively better for the purpose, which is the polar opposite for AI!

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lonehorizons@reddit

You’re right, but in advertising there’s already been a reaction to AI slop by some big brands who want to be seen as above the rest and want the prestige of working with creatives.

E.g. Apple released a making of video for their most recent Macbook campaign, showing the shoot and the VFX work because people kept commenting that it looked like AI.

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the_wind_effect@reddit

And you will pay a premium for those brands and products. They won't be mainstream, they will be the "handmade" versions that only the rich can afford.

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Snoo_15594@reddit

No a lot of the time it is the biggest names also using AI

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Wascoo@reddit

They should go back to using clip out when slopverts had soul.

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bobbymoonshine@reddit

When they used clip art and comic sans everyone laughed at that online too

Low effort always looks low effort. But sometimes small businesses don’t have the time or money for high effort, so low effort is what they do.

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GrimQuim@reddit

I see a lot of races are running events using AI and I find it quite jarring, there was nothing wrong with a photo of a old guy in ronhills superimposed with text that looks like it was designed for Geocities.

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definitelynotfae@reddit

As an artist countless people told me this would never happen when I mentioned businesses using AI for everything instead of people. “No respecting business would do that” they said, now look at this mess.

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FriendshipOk7636@reddit

Richard Osman on his podcast said that AI will lead to a renaissance in human-generated content because people will get sick of the slop and cry out for human art instead (art in the very broadest sense of the world).

I think it's a really naive position. Because there's a wide range of art (from what's featured on pub posters to dog salon logos) where people just don't care.

Then there's a bunch of human made art that is being supplemented by AI in ways that will be invisible (AI redubbing a line of dialogue instead of paying the actor again, or making an AI generated establishing shot that only appears for two seconds, writing a script peppered with occasional lines by ChatGPT).

Already we're getting to extreme levels of slop on the basis of those two alone. The "high arts" will probably be safe, as that crowd is genuinely willing to shell out more for something human made.

The problem is that the temptation to save money on something is far far higher than the willingness of companies to take a punt on a risk with an unclear benefit (e.g. If we make a cowboy film and advertise it as "100% human made" would anyone actually care enough to pay us more than the money we would have saved if we had just used AI?)

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definitelynotfae@reddit

I absolutely agree. In some ways it’s already happening, a lot of people are turning to the analogue and the human made in retaliation, but the attention is only part of the problem. My bread and butter used to be taking headshots for small businesses. That work dried up almost overnight and now I’m having to change my entire career path. People will crave human made art, but there might be less artists around able to make it.

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GourangaPlusPlus@reddit

“No respecting business would do that”

They were right though, I think you've just overestimated the amount of respecting businesses

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c-e-r-y-s@reddit

I told a lady selling her own book via Amazon this. I said "your ai cover is putting people off" and her only excuse was that it saves businesses thousands... Surely businesses can commission a student artist to do something for them, because you are 100% correct, it truly puts people off.

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ultraboomkin@reddit

Yeah, if a pub can’t commission an artist to do a poster for its quiz night, it really puts me off going. Wonder what else they’re cheaping out on?

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Morganx27@reddit

Nobody's expecting them to commission an artist, just continue what they've been doing for the past 20 years or so.

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ultraboomkin@reddit

Can you explain why making a poster on PowerPoint/word with pictures from Google and some WordArt text is better or more ethical than doing the same thing through ChatGPT?

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Discworld_Monthly@reddit

AI generated posters don't run by the rules of design. They are cluttered with non-information which makes them not stand out from the crowd.

Bob down the pub creating a poster for quiz night will keep it simple and clean.

The poster will have just the relevant needed information with a simple graphic to show it's a pub quiz in a format everyone can read and understand.

And yes, some pubs used to use a Graphic designer to produce their advertising posters. AI generated slop is killing their industry.

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callisstaa@reddit

This is why I don’t really care tbh. Sure AI is infringing on a lot of good art and livelihoods but pub quiz posters? It’s either this or a picture of a pint on a black background with PUB QUIZ written over the top.

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BeatificBanana@reddit

I don't know why, but I hugely prefer the picture of a pint on a black background with pub quiz written over the top

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CrocPB@reddit

It's the difference between a sloppy AI made Welsh flag and someone just writing "DRAGON" on white and green.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

I think I'd give something cheap and cheerful a pass on stuff like this, a generation ago it would only have been the barman knocking something up in Microsoft Word with the right date and prices on it rather than "comissioning an artist". If their menu, pub sign and entire website was automatically generated however, another matter

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mattcannon2@reddit

You don't need to commission an artist for a pub quiz. You can bash together a quick poster on PowerPoint though.

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Salaried_Zebra@reddit

Probably using plagiarised pictures you found on Google images, which is hardly better and will in fact look worse

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BeatificBanana@reddit

You know you can filter Google images for creative commons?

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Salaried_Zebra@reddit

I know that. Your average pub landlord boshing together a quick poster for their pub quiz probably doesn't, and I dunno about you but I don't fancy being that dickhead who saunters to the bar and goes "aCksHuLlY tHaTs cOpYrIGhTeD"

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BeatificBanana@reddit

Would anyone even care though?

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geeered@reddit

Exactly... like maybe they're not even using one of the top 10 international quiz masters to research their questions either!

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SeoulGalmegi@reddit

Reminds me of one of my most shameful moments as a yoof.

A bunch of us used to go down the local for weekly pub quiz. One week, a couple questions in, two of my team mates leaned over and said they had done another pub quiz a few days ago with exactly the same questions.

We won.

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antimatterchopstix@reddit

I discovered 2 pubs that had the same quiz the day after each other. The 3rd week at least 2 other teams had also realised this.

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SeoulGalmegi@reddit

To be fair to us, we had no idea, and never did it again.

It felt like a very hollow victory. But we also weren't sure what we should have done, without somewhat ruining the night for us, the pub, and others.

So.... we made a few intentional mistakes on the quiz. Enjoyed a few beers. Accepted the accolades and basically everyone had a regular pub quiz night and nobody was any the wiser.

Twenty years later and I still think of it haha

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Sweetlittle66@reddit

No but they probably used the AI to generate the questions as well

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Pippin4242@reddit

I wanted to buy the newest Jonathan Clements book - he's a serious academic, who writes about various things including animation. But the book about art was given a disgusting plagiarised slop cover.

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cheese_bruh@reddit

Book covers are done by the publishers tbf

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Pippin4242@reddit

Yeah I only found out about the book and the cover because we're friends on Facebook, and he was pretty transparent when somebody asked about it. It's clear that it wouldn't have been his choice.

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GourangaPlusPlus@reddit

So you did or didn't buy the book based on the cover?

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productofamurderer_@reddit

Or at the very least, refine the output instead of just taking the first thing it spits out. That’s the thing a lot of people get wrong with it is just entering a generic prompt that everyone probably uses (or even the suggested ones in the case of image generation) and accepting whatever it gives it.

But I do agree, it should ultimately be used as a concept to either redesign in photoshop or to give to a graphic designer as an idea. I can imagine that line of work is suffering heavy because of it, it’s absolutely insane that the majority of that wall is using AI slop for advertising! Just comes across so cheap.

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ancapailldorcha@reddit

I've a rule against going into places like that. I've seen a few Irish in the UK Facebook pages just get turned into crap pubs spamming these hideous posters.

If you can't lure me in with images of actual food and actual people having fun, your establishment is sh*t. That's the implication for me.

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Realistic-Muffin-165@reddit

A local restaurant put out a bunch with the staff on it. Usual style as per the OP.

It was more fun to find all the hallucinations in it

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Bumhug360@reddit

Was at a local faire at the weekend and the amount of AI crap was unbelievable. Was queuing up for a milkshake but when looking at the price list saw they only took meaestro, ma55t33cd and vsai and since didn't have any of those cards went somewhere else

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andy3600@reddit

Just to play the other side of the discussion, the advantage of using these AI images of people, does mean that there isn’t any gdpr concerns with images of people.

I’ve seen it before where Doris from the local community centre takes some photos on her iPad of people having fun at the summer fete and the she uses said photos the following year and all of the local Facebook group goes mad.

“I didn’t give you permission to use my son’s photo?”

“My wife didn’t know I was eating that burger, I wa supposed to be on a diet”

“Why didn’t you use Shanade for the photos she’s an amateur actor, she played a cadaver in Straw Dogs?”

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NecessaryRun1943@reddit

Just saying but the photos in question refer to a small pub in a village (source: I live about 10 minutes from said pub) perhaps they’re AI generating their event posters due to lack of staff? I think it’d be a different story if bigger companies started generating their advertising for events using AI.

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Sustain_the_higher@reddit

It's possible they use the same program to make the same thing - like the Ghibli AI generator, it all looked basically the same

It also looks ugly as hell and I don't even bother reading the info. If someone is so lazy as to use AI, they're gonna be too lazy to organise a good event

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UnacceptableUse@reddit

Because AI is averaging everything that it has been trained on, so what it will produce has a similar style which is that average

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Numerous-Corner-6303@reddit

I'm old enough to have lived through the "Clipart on everything" age of computing. Every PowerPoint slide would be cluttered with word art and clipart. Every memo and poster would use the same crappy clipart. There's always a massive overuse of stuff like this once it first comes in because average Joes think it looks "neat" or "impressive" but the backlash will arrive soon enough.

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KopiteForever@reddit

Exactly, and it'll just get averager and averager until it averages out.

It'll only appeal to the average common denominator.

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CarpetGripperRod@reddit

Likewise, in coding circles, it's not pretty good at Javascript because there is so much of it about, but it's right shit at more esoteric languages... like Brainfuck.

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madbobmcjim@reddit

It also depends on the fragmentation of the source material.

It was easy to get it to generate configs for an open source networking platform, because all the code was out there.

But when I tried to get it to write Cisco configs it started producing some commands for the wrong versions of Cisco routers, because its hard for to differentiate between them.

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TheDawiWhisperer@reddit

i dunno whether it does this with IOS configs but i i use it as a starting point for powershell scripts and the mount of cmdlets and switches that it makes up is absolutely insane.

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madbobmcjim@reddit

Or me, I was trying to get something working on IOS-XRv and it was spitting out commands or IOS or IOS-XE.

Once I'd got through that I'd get a few that worked on an ASR5500 or an 8k, but not XRv.

I believe it's just down to the training material not differentiating properly.

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GastricallyStretched@reddit

I feel like a lot of the T-shirts in Next have AI slop designs printed on them. Like, one of the designs is about a music festival in 1987. I looked it up, and it doesn't appear to have ever existed. Other designs are just meaningless, like they're grammatically sound, but the words are just clearly meaningless bullshit generated by AI.

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Robichaelis@reddit

"fictional" branding on clothing has been around forever

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SilverstoneMonzaSpa@reddit

I once spent about 20 minutes trying to work out what circuit was on a high street racing branded t shirt.

It was fictional, and before AI was common.

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bowak@reddit

That's been the norm for them, and before that Debenhams' (and presumably others) own brand stuff since at least the 90s.

Especially if it's faux-Americana, stuff like "Bob's Shrimp Shack 1962" etc

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mothsugar@reddit

every pair of no-name jeans is 'authentic originals'

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harbourwall@reddit

In a few decades this style will be called "retro-slop" and all the cool kids will be wearing it printed on t-shirts.

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WeWereInfinite@reddit

They've been doing that long before AI was a thing.

Although I do love the idea of you checking Google and going "waaaaait a minute... there was no Albanian Jazz Bonanza in 1987!"

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BeatificBanana@reddit

That stuff isn't necessarily AI. I've had clothes with fake dates and events on since I was a kid, at least 20 years ago.

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lungbong@reddit

Primark have been doing this for years.

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callisstaa@reddit

Could just be Chinese tbf

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Kiwi_Woz@reddit

Likely both.

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Sea_Appointment8408@reddit

I'm a musician, the amount of "musicians" who just spurt out AI crap and it sounds the same as every other shit out there.

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CrocPB@reddit

At the very least make it clear that the music is AI generated so the listener can make informed choices.

Then again I got into AI generated country music because some of the lyrics were so, so, hilariously shocking. But I know it's AI and I would rather it be kept in its own corner and not be mixed in with human made music.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

You'd have thought AI would start to understand this though, maybe more people will say "make it look less artificially generated" or just come to this conclusion itself and mix it up. We are in the very early days here, and it doesn't look terrible on first glance, only when you realise every other poster is in this exact style.

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BeardySam@reddit

this is the AI ‘default’ - you can get it different if you prompt it better but sloppy joes aren’t the type to ‘try harder’

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Evening_Archer_2202@reddit

This is only correct if you dont mention a specific style in the prompt

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IcyGarage5767@reddit

So it’s just an art style essentially?

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mike6024@reddit

One that will never evolve and never change (unless of course it gets trained on new art at some point)

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Noesfsratool@reddit

Id be worried about the pub doing a us independence party.

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Flonkerton_Scranton@reddit

Happy Independence Day! Day! everyone!

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Puzzled-Economy716@reddit

Maybe RobB Dee will be there!

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OkNewspaper6271@reddit

Theres a degree of Ai just averaging what its trained on, but theres also the aspect that most people use the same most widely used models (ie ChatGPT)

If you use some model trained off photorealistic images, youll get something "photorealistic" so on so fourth for other styles/models

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Serdtsag@reddit

I am curious for these common poster instances, how often it's actually Meta's AI, because it's a lot more accessable for the older crowd, who'll have seen it when they've opened up Facebook, Messenger or WhatsApp

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geeered@reddit

Also that a lot of people make minimal effort with their prompts... or intentionally want a specific look. Like the majority of fun fair posters I see all look the same way before LLMs.

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ThereWeAreThen2@reddit

It’s awful but like McDonalds it’s fast and doesn’t require any skill

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PracticeNo8733@reddit

It seems that all the samey posters are for various days/events a The Badger. So I suspect they were all made by the same person using the same tool with the same settings/base prompt. And TBH even pre-AI materials for the same brand/establishment could look samey anyway.

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Extreme_Objective984@reddit

My first thought was that it was prompt based. In that the users are possibly not specifying an art style or it is the same user who has an art style they like.

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Dechibrator@reddit

My cafe, my pub and the weird church down the road have the same posters. It's the standard setting as i believe

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meltymcface@reddit

Little village in West Yorkshire, England is populated with these same style of posters. It's exactly the same style.

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AdministrativeShip2@reddit

Bjj cafe opened the next town over.

It used AI and their poster looks like a knock off Tom of Finland piece.

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PracticeNo8733@reddit

Or you live in a town all controlled by the cult based in the weird church.

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Dechibrator@reddit

I just moved in and it really has a Hot Fuzz vibe, you might be onto something

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BrightEyeCameDown@reddit

It's for the greater good.

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nm63uk@reddit

The greater good.

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Salaried_Zebra@reddit

Yarp

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harbourwall@reddit

It's still better than clip art and comic sans. Desktop publishing has always been the scourge of humanity.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

I have seen that exact same style for things like a local real ale festival, a campsite, a village hall meeting, the school fete - it is rampant.

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Anony_mouse202@reddit

They’re all using low-quality, free/cheap/easily accessible models, which all tend to produce the same poor quality shit because they all have the same limitations.

Once you get to the proper AI models, you start getting images that are pretty much impossible to distinguish from human generated content.

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FatherPaulStone@reddit

Absolutely hate this, and no doubt this will be the style of the mid 2020's when we look back in years to come.

The flip side is though, it makes it super easy to stand out. if you actually put some effort in.

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theNixher@reddit

Because Ai all uses a similar model to produce its garbage, and they all pull from the same sources.

I wonder what will happen when half the content it pulls from is Ai? Double Ai?

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Bitter_Excitement242@reddit

Reminds me of the clipart craze in the 90s.

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harbourwall@reddit

Very much so. I'm hoping this is the final nail in the coffin of clip art.

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ReynoldsHouseOfShred@reddit

Yea its the same sort of warm and soft wash. Its down to the machine learning of what works.

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the_red_raiderr@reddit

What a pub The Badger is btw!! Have had a skinful there a couple of times, solid gaff

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giuseppeh@reddit

I’ve seen this exact style across loads of pubs - they must be using the same prompt

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lightfollower42@reddit

As a qualified graphic designer they look horrendous and repetitive- how can anyone thinks this looks good 😭😭🤣

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PassingShot11@reddit

Because it's an average of an average

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Only_Tip9560@reddit

It is the average poster. Everyone is producing the average poster and it just looks like nothing.

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Morganx27@reddit

Are you not tempted to go to Independence Day! Day! ?

As others have said, it's basically averaging all of human creativity into bland slop. When that Willy's Chocolate Experience thing came about, we all understood the AI generated assets to be a red flag, now it seems to be the done thing for every event under the sun.

I miss when everything looked the same because it was knocked up in Canva, now it all looks the same because it's been knocked up in the lying machine :(

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marshallandy83@reddit

Willy's Chocolate Experience?

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Tango91@reddit

Buckle up. https://youtu.be/DWWyf6oVDNU

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CarpetGripperRod@reddit

How is Billy Coull not in jail?

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beardedslav@reddit

Looks like he might be soon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly7w3re1xlo

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_Planemad_@reddit

The thing is Scotland few years back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy's_Chocolate_Experience?wprov=sfti1

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Jonny_Segment@reddit

Don't tell me you missed this episode of our collective experience? I suggest you head straight to Google. Highlights include the sad Oompa Loompa and The Unknown – make sure you find out about those things specifically.

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iamsheena@reddit

Most people don't specify a style so AI will use its default which means the low effort AI stuff is easier to spot. If people are more descriptive and detailed in their prompts, they would probably get more varied designs.

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Yeorge@reddit

Something like a pub, who are tight in margins as it is, can now just prompt chatGPT to generate a poster for a Father’s Day event and have an ok poster in seconds. Rather than finding a local graphic designer, paying them a sum of money, back and forth about the design before receiving the poster several days later. It’s faster, cheaper and easier for small/local businesses. Not saying I like the idea of it.

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Deux_Pep@reddit

I never knew Peter Sutcliffe moonlighted as a Tom Jones tribute.

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k0n3kt@reddit

All using same AI engine which uses a lot of stock images or traits. I work in AI i wish they'd turn it off already 😫

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Turak64@reddit

Most likely they're using similar prompts to generate the images.

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BoyGirlSmoke@reddit

Bloke on the right looks like Peter Sutcliffe.

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SidKills_Skiddy_2215@reddit

It will be looking the same as the prompts are similar, Like, Kindly design me a poster for so and so (with the details)
Again designer cost is saved. Hence most of the local businesses use this.

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Ok_Net4562@reddit

I went to the chippy yesterday and the entire wall was all ai. All the menu and specials. Make me wanna vom.

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Flonkerton_Scranton@reddit

You should have been around during the clipart era, it was a fantastic time to be alive.

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Old-Trick5289@reddit

Makes it easier for good design to stand out 🤣

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Spacehopper76@reddit

Probably because people are just using a basic prompt..they're not suggesting a particular style....that and they're probably all using the same AI model..I know that the AI is averaging things as well...but this is how things will be now..people won't be tempted to push AI to the limits to get something unique

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apple_kicks@reddit

Upside you know which events are going to be shit with organisers putting least amount of effort because how they did the same with posters

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glorycock@reddit

Around and about?

You mean in The Badger?

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mokujin42@reddit

Half of them are for the same events and these walls always looked like this

Weve reached a point were just blamimg AI for things people have been doing for 40+ years already

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mtbMark85@reddit

Why is a British pub celebrating Independence Day is the real question here.

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DrBob2016@reddit

Movie posters have been doing this for years, each genre has the same look and this was long before AI made an appearance.

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anonuk12345@reddit

It’s free which really helps. Also the same person has done all these probably considering theyre all for the badger at eastington. Shame though, its actually a really nice pub and these make it look shitty

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Pingushagger@reddit

The internet doesn’t seem to understand that the majority of the public doesnt care.

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toughfluffer@reddit

People in general are bad at design, an AI doing the work for these people is only as good as the prompts it's given. Unfortunately those people see the bland, cluttered, overly busy nonsense that AI produces and think "that looks great!"

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BlackStarDream@reddit

Because you've forgotten that posters generally looked the same before anyway.

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shanloulie@reddit

because it’s almost as if it’s not a great creative tool

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360Saturn@reddit

It is all stolen from the same sources.

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volster@reddit

Party it's the averaging effect others have mentioned - partly it's "garbage in, garbage out"

It's perfectly capable of generating "art" in just about any style you'd care to mention (remember the spat of everyone ripping off Ghibli's style?).... But you have to be specific about what you want.

Doing so requires you to know what to ask for in the first place, which let's face it, most people using it don't and aren't included to spend the time to research it.

..... If you just ask "can you make me a poster for my [insert thing here] that includes [insert sample photo here] with this text" - you get the default art style which is still serviceable enough for their needs and hence everything starts to look much of a muchness 🤷‍♂️

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CurrencyIll9145@reddit

as others have said, it averages out what it's been trained on. the trouble is, now these 'images' exist out there in droves, it becomes source material for future upgrades/models. self-perpetuating crap

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ukbot-nicolabot@reddit

Reminder. Answer the question.

If you don't want to answer the question, either don't reply, or reply to an existing comment rather than the post itself.

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ThinkAboutThatFor1Se@reddit

Is this different to templates and word art or whatever?

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ArmWildFrill@reddit

Looks like a pub I wouldn't go to.

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Fit-Mistake-4390@reddit

I mean all of these events are taking place at The Badger, it seems like they love their AI instead of commissioning a designer to make posters for them

Sounds like a place to avoid

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Weelki@reddit

No way! The Curry House Conspirators are playing live at Dadfest on Sunday the 21st of June!

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Questingcloset@reddit

The posters look shit but can't knock the amount of events they're putting on!

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RatioMaster9468@reddit

Aye, they're really badgering away over there

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ClarenceD_@reddit

I have noticed it. This exact style of slop is everywhere at the moment, where is it coming from?

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SeoulGalmegi@reddit

What do you mean where is it coming from?

Somebody wants to produce a poster for an event, and they can get something customized and 'professional' looking with just a couple of prompts.

I'm not getting what is surprising about this.

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CalicoDesertOasis@reddit

I work in AI and I still don't know where these posters are coming from? (I've never tried to make one but it seems like it's a specific app?)

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setokaiba22@reddit

If you work in AI how do you not know this is ChatGPT?

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rogeroutmal@reddit

How do you “work in AI” but not know what’s happening here?

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RatioMaster9468@reddit

Maybe they work in AI printed clothes and just shortened it to "Iwork in AI" in the same way you could say "I work in shorts and t-shirt"

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SeoulGalmegi@reddit

Probably any of the LLMs?

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LooshusMaximus@reddit

Nah, chatgpt will do it

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zendayaismeechee@reddit

I just know there’s some 17 year old aspiring designer out there who could do a much better job in about two hours and would probably love the opportunity. But nope, greedy cheap fuckers would rather grind out their AI slop and be the same as everyone else

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setokaiba22@reddit

I understand it in one sense even recently Canva has been the go to for most small businesses to do things themselves (even if they all start to look generic) it’s easy to use and cheaper than a designer.

This is the next step up and it’s awful. A few designers have commented in local groups online to us about this - and I totally agree with them. It’s creating a bit of rubbish and all businesses look the same as a result so you actually stand out more not doing this.

At the same time a designer costs and ChatGPT for the most part doesn’t for stuff like this and a small business this is a lifesaver in a way.

But if consumers turn away as a result or they don’t get clicks, reach on socials then they’ll be forced to change from AI. But whether that happens is another matter I guess

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namboozle@reddit

I'm really not into stuff just being generated by AI without any expertise behind it. A good designer would be able to promt and make something less shite with their experience. Having said that a designer would likely also just design something "by hand".

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Evening-Web-3038@reddit

The only issue for me is that they've put all the posters on the same board.

If they were separate signs relating to the next upcoming bunch of events (or spaced out much better) then they'd look alright, even if AI. They would look like a decent effort from some small pub in the arse end of nowhere who are trying to drum up business so they can continue to serve their community. And probably designed by people either unable to make their own posters (not uncommon) or who can't really pay a graphics designer to make some for an event which may, if they are lucky, attract an extra 5 punters.

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setokaiba22@reddit

ChatGPT

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Historical-Composer2@reddit

Because AI has no soul.

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dbxp@reddit

All the similar ones are from the same venue, even before AI it was common for companies to have a branding style

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nl325@reddit

This isn't a branding style, it's whatever AI model they're using churning out the same generic shite as every other AI model.

Those "fonts" are universal in the AI-slop world, as is the uncanny drawing style.

"Live-action" AI may well be more realistic than ever but still visual design you can still see it a fucking mile off.

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Lapst@reddit

I loathe this. It looks so shit. I’m in local musicians groups on Facebook and am seeing it constantly. Designing a poster really isn’t that difficult but people would rather skip the creative and skill-based part of the process altogether. I hope this cultural plateau has its moment and people start to reject it really soon

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TheBrianBoru@reddit

Sign of an idiot

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ld4484@reddit

It’s the same round here. As stupid as it sounds, it kind of puts me off even going into town, as it’s just all this kind of slop from local business. I get they want to save money but there are alternatives, like say hosting a local designing competition or having some of the local A Level/GCSE Art students do some bits (that could be used as part of their portfolio too so it’s a win/win)

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mirikaria@reddit

Independence day day killed me

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doctorgibson@reddit

The people who own The Badger knocked all these out in one go, probably. So the same general prompts, same AI, will all lead to similar looking shit

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Elvis_Precisely@reddit

Someone needs to have a word with the manager at The Badger Eastington and take away their chatGPT subscription. This is fucking nauseating.

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GoodTato@reddit

mmmmmm Independence Day Day

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Watchkeys@reddit

Independence Day! Day!

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Oghamstoner@reddit

It’s called special sauce. Like if you go to a restaurant and whatever dish you order, they put the same ‘special sauce’ on it. The content and shape vary, but it all tastes kinda similar. The more ai generated things there are on the internet, the more ai will start eating itself and regurgitating it’s own special sauce.

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