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The alternative is WordArt, or just black on white Comic Sans with some bolding and font size variations with bad ClipArt. These small scale events would never

The alternative is WordArt, or just black on white Comic Sans with some bolding and font size variations with bad ClipArt. These small scale events would never hire a professional. I'm old enough to remember that people also complained about WordArt and Clipart and too many fonts etc. I see the chatgpt poster style on many small-scale local village events also. But again, what they replace wasn't any better. It's not replacing some beautiful craft that existed before.

r_lee 19d ago
> But again, what they replace wasn't any better. I would argue otherwise. whereas before I'd take a glance and go "hm interesting" or whatever, with these its just "oh look, it's AI slop" and that's all I will notice
- bonoboTP 19d ago
  I can't help but like the posters for the sheer reason that they annoy some annoying people who have a visceral reaction to the concept of AI.
  - r_lee 19d ago
    > who have a visceral reaction to the concept of AI why do you think this is the reason? should I be cheering and clapping when someone goes on chatgpt and say "make me a poster" and they think they're a genius when this slop comes out?
    - bonoboTP 19d ago
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      - r_lee 19d ago
        what are you even trying to imply here? should I be complimenting these default AI slop posters or be feeling good about them? I never felt this way towards low effort / simple posters before, I thought they were fine
        bonoboTP 19d ago
        You just dislike their taste and the fact that they don't subscribe to your political crusade.
        r_lee 19d ago
        political crusade? and yes I dislike the taste of the AI slop posters as seen in the introduction of the article
    - drstewart 19d ago
      God forbid some overworked volunteer make a poster in 30 seconds instead of taking a college course to please some huffy internet commentators with an axe to grind
    - dolebirchwood 18d ago
      People take photos with their cell phones instead of painting a scene like Rembrandt. They don't think they are a genius, and nobody cheers and claps. The photos look fine, they get the job done, and everyone moves on with their lives without projecting insecurities online.
  - breezybottom 19d ago
    Same mentality as people who voted for Trump. No wonder he's become such an AI booster.
- Bootvis 19d ago
  In the examples above, that’s really your own loss? There will only be one or two events in your local village, it seems self defeating to ignore what they offer because you don’t like the medium. At least these posters are well laid out and easy to read.
dreambigwrkhard 19d ago
I am somewhat tired of all the AI posters, but I have to agree with what you are saying. The alternative was not any better. I think there's a persistent and very vocal segment of the population that just want to complain about anything to do with AI with a take no hostage approach. Some instances are understandable but if a local small town event or a low budget restaurant using AI to make a poster draws so much ire, I feel that it may be likely misplaced personal frustrations projected towards others. The response don't seem to be proportional to the offence.
wiether 19d ago
> I'm old enough to remember that people also complained about WordArt and Clipart and too many fonts etc. We basically had two kinds of posters: - those made by someone skilled/savvy (not necessarily a professional) - those made by someone without skills/knowledge The later were awful, in the sense that I would never display them in my home as a reminder of a an event I took part in. But still, they were nice because you knew someone took the time to create them to promote an event and share the important information about it, and each person was producing their own awful posters. Now with gen AI we have something filled with trash, everything looks the same, the important information is hard to find... Sure, the variations offered in the article are a bit better and more opinionated, but they still reek AI conformity and I feel sick looking at them.
- jwr 19d ago
  > they still reek AI conformity and I feel sick looking at them I bet you would not feel sick if you didn't know ahead of time they were AI-generated. Some really are quite good.
  - phoronixrly 19d ago
    > if you didn't know ahead of time they were AI-generated You can't be serious... Are we looking at the same posters?
    - ACCount39 19d ago
      Yes. That's the issue: we are looking at the same posters. It's just that "seeing this poster for the first time, unaware of the workings behind it" is a very different experience from "seeing this poster after you already saw dozens of other AI generated posters that used a similar style and had similar issues, got canny at spotting both the style and the issues in it, and came to associate them with cheap low quality work". The former impression is "wow that's a good poster". The latter impression is "ew, it's posterslop". The poster, in the meanwhile, remains the same. AI can often win in art contests - images, short stories, design. But that requires either sharp prompting, or an audience that's not familiar with "AI cliches". The quality is, if removed from the context, fairly good. If embedded in context, it's utter slop. The work is the same. Funny how that works.
gyomu 19d ago
> The alternative is WordArt, or just black on white Comic Sans with some bolding and font size variations with bad ClipArt ?? The alternative is people just taking some markers & a sheet of paper, or chalk and a blackboard. If you travel around east Asia you’ll be delighted by the variety and creativity of these handmade signs. Way better than anything produced digitally. But of course their relationship to handwriting is completely different there compared to the west.
Kreutzer 19d ago
One of my favorite local ice cream shops uses Comic Sans (white on navy blue) on all their signage and this is one of the main reasons I frequent it. If they were to switch to some AI slop I wouldn't step my feet in there again.
- 1123581321 18d ago
  Sounds like you could go to a different shop right now, that stands out for its ice cream instead of its signs. :)
nevertoolate 18d ago
I know this is an internet forum, but do you have any experience with posters? There are many great tools to create posters from templates. You can make something in canva for example in minutes from free templates. You upload a photo, play around with it. You can also search the old internet for some tutorials. You know, like a human would do.

r_lee 19d ago

> But again, what they replace wasn't any better. I would argue otherwise. whereas before I'd take a glance and go "hm interesting" or whatever, with these its just "oh look, it's AI slop" and that's all I will notice

bonoboTP 19d ago
I can't help but like the posters for the sheer reason that they annoy some annoying people who have a visceral reaction to the concept of AI.
- r_lee 19d ago
  > who have a visceral reaction to the concept of AI why do you think this is the reason? should I be cheering and clapping when someone goes on chatgpt and say "make me a poster" and they think they're a genius when this slop comes out?
  - bonoboTP 19d ago
    [flagged]
    - r_lee 19d ago
      what are you even trying to imply here? should I be complimenting these default AI slop posters or be feeling good about them? I never felt this way towards low effort / simple posters before, I thought they were fine
      - bonoboTP 19d ago
        You just dislike their taste and the fact that they don't subscribe to your political crusade.
        r_lee 19d ago
        political crusade? and yes I dislike the taste of the AI slop posters as seen in the introduction of the article
  - drstewart 19d ago
    God forbid some overworked volunteer make a poster in 30 seconds instead of taking a college course to please some huffy internet commentators with an axe to grind
  - dolebirchwood 18d ago
    People take photos with their cell phones instead of painting a scene like Rembrandt. They don't think they are a genius, and nobody cheers and claps. The photos look fine, they get the job done, and everyone moves on with their lives without projecting insecurities online.
- breezybottom 19d ago
  Same mentality as people who voted for Trump. No wonder he's become such an AI booster.
Bootvis 19d ago
In the examples above, that’s really your own loss? There will only be one or two events in your local village, it seems self defeating to ignore what they offer because you don’t like the medium. At least these posters are well laid out and easy to read.

dreambigwrkhard 19d ago

I am somewhat tired of all the AI posters, but I have to agree with what you are saying. The alternative was not any better. I think there's a persistent and very vocal segment of the population that just want to complain about anything to do with AI with a take no hostage approach. Some instances are understandable but if a local small town event or a low budget restaurant using AI to make a poster draws so much ire, I feel that it may be likely misplaced personal frustrations projected towards others. The response don't seem to be proportional to the offence.

wiether 19d ago

> I'm old enough to remember that people also complained about WordArt and Clipart and too many fonts etc. We basically had two kinds of posters: - those made by someone skilled/savvy (not necessarily a professional) - those made by someone without skills/knowledge The later were awful, in the sense that I would never display them in my home as a reminder of a an event I took part in. But still, they were nice because you knew someone took the time to create them to promote an event and share the important information about it, and each person was producing their own awful posters. Now with gen AI we have something filled with trash, everything looks the same, the important information is hard to find... Sure, the variations offered in the article are a bit better and more opinionated, but they still reek AI conformity and I feel sick looking at them.

jwr 19d ago
> they still reek AI conformity and I feel sick looking at them I bet you would not feel sick if you didn't know ahead of time they were AI-generated. Some really are quite good.
- phoronixrly 19d ago
  > if you didn't know ahead of time they were AI-generated You can't be serious... Are we looking at the same posters?
  - ACCount39 19d ago
    Yes. That's the issue: we are looking at the same posters. It's just that "seeing this poster for the first time, unaware of the workings behind it" is a very different experience from "seeing this poster after you already saw dozens of other AI generated posters that used a similar style and had similar issues, got canny at spotting both the style and the issues in it, and came to associate them with cheap low quality work". The former impression is "wow that's a good poster". The latter impression is "ew, it's posterslop". The poster, in the meanwhile, remains the same. AI can often win in art contests - images, short stories, design. But that requires either sharp prompting, or an audience that's not familiar with "AI cliches". The quality is, if removed from the context, fairly good. If embedded in context, it's utter slop. The work is the same. Funny how that works.

gyomu 19d ago

> The alternative is WordArt, or just black on white Comic Sans with some bolding and font size variations with bad ClipArt ?? The alternative is people just taking some markers & a sheet of paper, or chalk and a blackboard. If you travel around east Asia you’ll be delighted by the variety and creativity of these handmade signs. Way better than anything produced digitally. But of course their relationship to handwriting is completely different there compared to the west.

Kreutzer 19d ago

One of my favorite local ice cream shops uses Comic Sans (white on navy blue) on all their signage and this is one of the main reasons I frequent it. If they were to switch to some AI slop I wouldn't step my feet in there again.

1123581321 18d ago
Sounds like you could go to a different shop right now, that stands out for its ice cream instead of its signs. :)

nevertoolate 18d ago

I know this is an internet forum, but do you have any experience with posters? There are many great tools to create posters from templates. You can make something in canva for example in minutes from free templates. You upload a photo, play around with it. You can also search the old internet for some tutorials. You know, like a human would do.