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Did you look at the examples? They're almost ridiculously diverse, and the prompts show very little handholding was required.

They're not novel, but a poster for a spring fair isn't supposed to look like a de Kooning.

These arguments are almost completely detached from reality. Most artists aren't diverse either - they're told to find a style and stick to it, and that's what they do.

Commercial graphic designers are more versatile, but the set of standard looks is still relatively small. Hollywood movie posters and book cover designers are notorious for reusing the same tropes and colour systems, and that's been true for years, long before AI was a thing.

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> They're almost ridiculously diverse, and the prompts show very little handholding was required.

The structure is identically to all of that, big title, graphic, list with icons. As said, they look fine on their own, the problem is only becomes apparent when you had to look had hundreds or thousands of them. It's the em-dash or the "load-bearing" of the AI-art world, the more you look at this stuff, the more apparent the similarities become.

> Hollywood movie posters and book cover designers are notorious for reusing the same tropes and colour systems, and that's been true for years, long before AI was a thing.

Exactly, but with AI that issue becomes even more drastic since the models don't create diversity by default.

> Most artists aren't diverse either

They don't have to be, since there are millions of them, all coming from different backgrounds, with different art styles and all. While there are only a handful of big AI models, who all come with a pretty generic default style.

> The structure is identically to all of that, big title, graphic, list with icons

You're complaining about posters being structured like posters?

But also the structure is particularly similar between these posters themselves across styles because they use the same prompt to describe the desired content and that's on purpose. The model is not asked to rework or reword any of the content, this lets you compare the styles.

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