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I don't mind AI art, generally.

However. The amount of pizza/kebap places that did an AI redesign of their shop AND MENU is crazy. The amount of cars that advertise small businesses using basically Disney style straight out of an AI. Like nearly every local event is basically just "Chatgpt make me flyer" with factual errors in the texts, even the in my local hospital that's what info flyers look like ...

And seriously. Didn't they look at there kebap? It looks nether apetizing nor like a kebab, why would they print that oversized and glue it on their business? Something very real they build over years with hard work.

It's like individuality is dying in front of our eyes

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During a recent trip, we saw a sushi place with some brand new huge printed advertisements. The sushi rolls had perfectly symmetrical “rice” that looked more like a corn cob than anything else. I had the same thought, how could the store manager possibly have approved this!? It’s like nobody gives a shit.

You’re right, they don’t care.

People are using LLMs for the things they consider distractions but are “required”, or at least feel that way about: ads, marketing web sites, emails to/from coworkers, and even RFP responses to government agencies.

Wherever someone uses the raw output of an LLM signifies how little they wanted to do the work in the first place yet still [desperately] want to reap the benefits of appearing to care.

Yesterday, I was searching for local HVAC maintenance companies when I came across one with a map showing their service area.

At a quick glance, it seemed fine but that was no longer the case once you zoomed in: it was a collection of hallucinated, non-sensical names. I too said, “how in the world was this reviewed and approved!?”, and then quickly came to the same conclusion that you did: “nobody gives a shit about this stuff anymore”.

https://mcairllc.com/images/service-area.png

>It's like individuality is dying in front of our eyes

Think of what individuality can do with AI assistance. AI is like guns. It levels the playing field. Now it does not matter how much your marketing budget is. If you can use AI in a smart way that does not dilute your essence, then you got a better chance to shine, than before..hopefully...

you have more chances to shine only because everyone around you is not shining, but instead competing on volume

I agree 100% but you need to do more than 2 sentences put into Chatgpt and send the result to your print shop

> AI is like guns.

Let’s you shoot yourself in the leg, if you don’t know what you are doing.

Every artist I know uses LLM’s to help with getting around some very complex program (Unity, Blender, After Effects etc), which they probably would abandon otherwise. They don’t use AI generate images or other visual content, because… It sucks. And to make it unsuck sucks so bad that you might just draw it yourself.

Today’s digital tools (drawing tablets, ProCreate etc) have made image making so effortless that you can make sick designs that would have taken months, in hours. But it still requires you to know how to draw, to make a composition, understand colour etc. Be an artist. You can prompt all you wan’t, but nothing changes that.

It's the same as an old chinese resteraunt with completely faded menus and a run-down dining area. It's probably great because they don't put effort into anything but the food.

I never been to a "faded old restaurant" that was actually good and not only the same shitty frozen food every other cheap Chinese place offers.

Good places around here usually do actually care about presentation. None of these kebap/pizza places is particularly good either, it's the mass production places with average to bad ratings.

I've been to tons, but I also live in LA so there are a lot of amazing mom and pop ethnic restaurants.

All freshly made food and very authentic.

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