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What bothers me is that I notice it everywhere. Not only does AI have a distinct writing style, it has a distinct style of frontend UI/UX design. I notice it on

What bothers me is that I notice it everywhere. Not only does AI have a distinct writing style, it has a distinct style of frontend UI/UX design. I notice it on more and more websites and it bores me. I want creativity and originality. I haven't really seen AI exhibit that at all. It can maybe be driven there through persistent human input but then I think it's still the human being original/creative.

embedding-shape 1mo ago
You'll get used to everything looking the same, this always goes in cycles and we're bound for it correcting itself shortly. In the past, we had this for web 2.0, Bootstrap, Tailwind (right before LLMs) and now LLMs, it all starts to look the same, then people get tired of it and everything looks unique and novel, until people get bored of that and a new unified design language starts to spread again, leading everything to look the same... It's all just cycles, seemingly forever, judging by the last ~20-30 years.
- FoundTheRetard 1mo ago
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jojobas 1mo ago
Creativity and originality? Like when you try to scroll a page and it rotates an image gallery instead?
- sureglymop 1mo ago
  Not sure if sarcastic but no. Check out for example this website: https://www.geofungames.com/ https://www.geofungames.com/ The functionality more or less works and the website is usable, but the design follows that "AI style". I'm not sure how else to describe it.
  - properbrew 1mo ago
    This is absolutely a generic AI website. Do you feel the same about one I've developed using AI? https://whistle-enterprise.com/ https://whistle-enterprise.com/ I think the AIslop of websites is down to the lack of vision or user journey and just going with the default which will always be generic and bland. If it does feel in the "AI style" I'd love to understand what it is.
    - stlwtt 29d ago
      FWIW, I clicked through a few pages and this doesn't register as AI slop to me at all. At least, it's missing the cargo cult telltales like the beige or unreadable neon hax0r dark mode theme, that console looking font with three different sizes and tiny headings, formatting vomit with italics/bolding every other word, useless cards/animated colored dots, scrolling text, excess boilerplate text on every surface, useless generated tags/categories/chips everywhere, etc that plague the designs of the last year. Overall it's clean and modern (and the interactive table actually has content not pointless filler). It definitely wouldn't have triggered my visceral slop reaction and therefore wouldn't bother me if I later learned the dev used AI to make it. I can't speak for everyone, but personally my issue isn't the use of AI at all (I use it myself), the problem is being able to recognize a carbon copy Claude/Codex design in <5 seconds. At that point I can't help but assume it's just slop that was fired off with a couple prompts and not worth my time engaging any further. (Mostly) the same with prose. But that's playing with fire a bit because while a website/app might have a utilitarian purpose, I will have zero motivation to continue reading text I didn't prompt myself once I suspect it's from an LLM. There's just too much spam now to give benefit of the doubt unfortunately. The writing on your site doesn't scream LLM either though so I think you're good on both fronts. It's like the saying "if you're explaining you're losing": once the seed is planted that it's AI, it's extremely hard to successfully argue your identical Claude-designed site is the exception that deserves users' limited time. Putting in some minimal thought and care in advance to avoid that first impression means fewer of those arguments with potential users experiencing slop fatigue like me. Anyway, nice job!
      - properbrew 26d ago

embedding-shape 1mo ago

You'll get used to everything looking the same, this always goes in cycles and we're bound for it correcting itself shortly. In the past, we had this for web 2.0, Bootstrap, Tailwind (right before LLMs) and now LLMs, it all starts to look the same, then people get tired of it and everything looks unique and novel, until people get bored of that and a new unified design language starts to spread again, leading everything to look the same... It's all just cycles, seemingly forever, judging by the last ~20-30 years.

FoundTheRetard 1mo ago
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jojobas 1mo ago

Creativity and originality? Like when you try to scroll a page and it rotates an image gallery instead?

sureglymop 1mo ago
Not sure if sarcastic but no. Check out for example this website: https://www.geofungames.com/ https://www.geofungames.com/ The functionality more or less works and the website is usable, but the design follows that "AI style". I'm not sure how else to describe it.
- properbrew 1mo ago
  This is absolutely a generic AI website. Do you feel the same about one I've developed using AI? https://whistle-enterprise.com/ https://whistle-enterprise.com/ I think the AIslop of websites is down to the lack of vision or user journey and just going with the default which will always be generic and bland. If it does feel in the "AI style" I'd love to understand what it is.
  - stlwtt 29d ago
    FWIW, I clicked through a few pages and this doesn't register as AI slop to me at all. At least, it's missing the cargo cult telltales like the beige or unreadable neon hax0r dark mode theme, that console looking font with three different sizes and tiny headings, formatting vomit with italics/bolding every other word, useless cards/animated colored dots, scrolling text, excess boilerplate text on every surface, useless generated tags/categories/chips everywhere, etc that plague the designs of the last year. Overall it's clean and modern (and the interactive table actually has content not pointless filler). It definitely wouldn't have triggered my visceral slop reaction and therefore wouldn't bother me if I later learned the dev used AI to make it. I can't speak for everyone, but personally my issue isn't the use of AI at all (I use it myself), the problem is being able to recognize a carbon copy Claude/Codex design in <5 seconds. At that point I can't help but assume it's just slop that was fired off with a couple prompts and not worth my time engaging any further. (Mostly) the same with prose. But that's playing with fire a bit because while a website/app might have a utilitarian purpose, I will have zero motivation to continue reading text I didn't prompt myself once I suspect it's from an LLM. There's just too much spam now to give benefit of the doubt unfortunately. The writing on your site doesn't scream LLM either though so I think you're good on both fronts. It's like the saying "if you're explaining you're losing": once the seed is planted that it's AI, it's extremely hard to successfully argue your identical Claude-designed site is the exception that deserves users' limited time. Putting in some minimal thought and care in advance to avoid that first impression means fewer of those arguments with potential users experiencing slop fatigue like me. Anyway, nice job!
    - properbrew 26d ago