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Creativity does not have to be expensive to be good. Yall just dont want to bother dealing with it.

by sevenzero 7d ago

sammularczyk 7d ago
Exactly. Sad to see another industry getting decimated by AI just to save a bit of cash.
- w4yai 7d ago
  A bit ? A lot.
  - sevenzero 7d ago
    Because people assume u need to actually hire someone to make art. Just let your kid draw something for your small restaurant. It's more pleasant to look at for people who didn't yet sell their soul to AI.
    - sejje 7d ago
      Then you get Chick o' Fish. It is not, in fact, more pleasant to look at.
    - rpdillon 7d ago
      > Just let your kid draw something for your small restaurant. Wait, we've gone from "pay the local artists" because AI shows you're "lazy and cheap" and "don't care about your brand". And now whatever my 7-year-old draws is good enough. My only conclusion reading these threads is that folks come in with their mind made up, and will argue absolutely anything so long as it amounts to "AI bad".
      - Barrin92 7d ago
        the point of advertising is to communicate something. If your kid draws your menu, you signal family values. If you pay a local artist, you signal investment in the community. If ChatGPT churns out your ad you've signaled nothing. And that's obviously why you can criticize AI for every imaginable reason. That's indeed the difference and why people, regardless of how 'good' your AI art will be, will attempt to hide it, because it defeats the purpose of advertising as such.
        rpdillon 6d ago
        And every person I talk to has a different take. In one case, it's that you don't respect the brand and you're lazy and you're cheap. In another, it's that you're signaling your values. Maybe the reality is a lot of people have different feelings about this. Most people don't care and I'm mostly engaging with the loudest detractors, each with their own reason for hating AI.
        sevenzero 6d ago
        >And every person I talk to has a different take. Maybe every person you talk to is autistic with no sense for creativity at all. Thats what most of this dogshit website consists of. Programmers with no values, no creativity, no friends, no life and no self awareness. People who actually should be replaced by AI because they lack human values.
        Barrin92 6d ago
        >Maybe the reality is a lot of people have different feelings about this. yes that is the reality, but what I was saying was is that the abstract reason for that is what's called costly signalling in economics, biology or even religious studies. When you want to display, advertise or communicate to earn yourself trust, it must cost something. Whether that's proof of work, or money, or reputation or skill, what all AI criticisms have in common is that AI costs nothing. Signalling values isn't 'another thing', it's what underlies every motivation for an ad or display and the better your AI tools get the less of a costly signal it is.
opem 7d ago
These people just doesn't have a good taste, imo.
masfuerte 7d ago
This is like anything. If you want good and inexpensive it's going to be a pain in your arse one way or another.
dreambigwrkhard 7d ago
I was the person who "had to bother dealing with it" many years ago before we had AI, Canva, or even Adobe cloud. I volunteered and designed a good amount of posters for student organizations. Don't enjoy it but did it to help my peers and friends out. I find it ironic that back then we had a lot of trouble finding people who were willing to design posters and promo media on print. Now the comment section on this post has people mourning AI taking over poster making in 2026. Where was the help back then? From the perspective of someone who had to burn the midnight oil to do it for years, trust me, I would rather not do it and spend that time with my family and friends. And judging from how hard it was to find others who were willing to do it, I think its a reasonable argument that most people were not actually willing to do the work either. So mourn away but I wouldn't cry if I "missed out" on making posters. If we had AI back then, I would not take on any of those poster making requests.
- breezybottom 7d ago
  Back when? The 1970s? I don't believe that you couldn't find poster making services in the last 10-20 years.
  - fn-mote 7d ago
    You missed the “I volunteered” part. They were working for free.
    - breezybottom 7d ago
      "I find it ironic that back then we had a lot of trouble finding people who were willing to design posters and promo media on print." I don't see the word free here. Of course you'd have trouble finding people to do anything for free.
      - adwn 7d ago
        They said: "I volunteered and designed a good amount of posters for student organizations." What do you think how many student organization have the excess money to hire a professional designer for a one-off poster? Of course they needed someone to do it for free, or else it wouldn't have been done at all!
jryle70 7d ago
For every human good art that is cheap I can show you ten that are not. The problem is you don't know which version you'd get. Someone charges less because they are unknown. Fixing AI art is much less hassle than human one.

Creativity does not have to be expensive to be good. Yall just dont want to bother dealing with it.

sammularczyk 7d ago

Exactly. Sad to see another industry getting decimated by AI just to save a bit of cash.

w4yai 7d ago
A bit ? A lot.
- sevenzero 7d ago
  Because people assume u need to actually hire someone to make art. Just let your kid draw something for your small restaurant. It's more pleasant to look at for people who didn't yet sell their soul to AI.
  - sejje 7d ago
    Then you get Chick o' Fish. It is not, in fact, more pleasant to look at.
  - rpdillon 7d ago
    > Just let your kid draw something for your small restaurant. Wait, we've gone from "pay the local artists" because AI shows you're "lazy and cheap" and "don't care about your brand". And now whatever my 7-year-old draws is good enough. My only conclusion reading these threads is that folks come in with their mind made up, and will argue absolutely anything so long as it amounts to "AI bad".
    - Barrin92 7d ago
      the point of advertising is to communicate something. If your kid draws your menu, you signal family values. If you pay a local artist, you signal investment in the community. If ChatGPT churns out your ad you've signaled nothing. And that's obviously why you can criticize AI for every imaginable reason. That's indeed the difference and why people, regardless of how 'good' your AI art will be, will attempt to hide it, because it defeats the purpose of advertising as such.
      - rpdillon 6d ago
        And every person I talk to has a different take. In one case, it's that you don't respect the brand and you're lazy and you're cheap. In another, it's that you're signaling your values. Maybe the reality is a lot of people have different feelings about this. Most people don't care and I'm mostly engaging with the loudest detractors, each with their own reason for hating AI.
        sevenzero 6d ago
        >And every person I talk to has a different take. Maybe every person you talk to is autistic with no sense for creativity at all. Thats what most of this dogshit website consists of. Programmers with no values, no creativity, no friends, no life and no self awareness. People who actually should be replaced by AI because they lack human values.
        Barrin92 6d ago
        >Maybe the reality is a lot of people have different feelings about this. yes that is the reality, but what I was saying was is that the abstract reason for that is what's called costly signalling in economics, biology or even religious studies. When you want to display, advertise or communicate to earn yourself trust, it must cost something. Whether that's proof of work, or money, or reputation or skill, what all AI criticisms have in common is that AI costs nothing. Signalling values isn't 'another thing', it's what underlies every motivation for an ad or display and the better your AI tools get the less of a costly signal it is.

opem 7d ago

These people just doesn't have a good taste, imo.

masfuerte 7d ago

This is like anything. If you want good and inexpensive it's going to be a pain in your arse one way or another.

dreambigwrkhard 7d ago

I was the person who "had to bother dealing with it" many years ago before we had AI, Canva, or even Adobe cloud. I volunteered and designed a good amount of posters for student organizations. Don't enjoy it but did it to help my peers and friends out. I find it ironic that back then we had a lot of trouble finding people who were willing to design posters and promo media on print. Now the comment section on this post has people mourning AI taking over poster making in 2026. Where was the help back then? From the perspective of someone who had to burn the midnight oil to do it for years, trust me, I would rather not do it and spend that time with my family and friends. And judging from how hard it was to find others who were willing to do it, I think its a reasonable argument that most people were not actually willing to do the work either. So mourn away but I wouldn't cry if I "missed out" on making posters. If we had AI back then, I would not take on any of those poster making requests.

breezybottom 7d ago
Back when? The 1970s? I don't believe that you couldn't find poster making services in the last 10-20 years.
- fn-mote 7d ago
  You missed the “I volunteered” part. They were working for free.
  - breezybottom 7d ago
    "I find it ironic that back then we had a lot of trouble finding people who were willing to design posters and promo media on print." I don't see the word free here. Of course you'd have trouble finding people to do anything for free.
    - adwn 7d ago
      They said: "I volunteered and designed a good amount of posters for student organizations." What do you think how many student organization have the excess money to hire a professional designer for a one-off poster? Of course they needed someone to do it for free, or else it wouldn't have been done at all!

jryle70 7d ago

For every human good art that is cheap I can show you ten that are not. The problem is you don't know which version you'd get. Someone charges less because they are unknown. Fixing AI art is much less hassle than human one.