Fuck AI

I believe, at some point (early last year, if my brain isn't doing a funny), the industry generally configured their models to use this glossy cartoon style, if the user doesn't specify anything else, because it's a style the models can do fairly well.

Their largest training set is humans, but mistakes on humans look horrid, due to Uncanny Valley, so the cartoon style avoids that. It also requires relatively few details that the model can get wrong or that the user would have to correct in their prompt (like perspective, light angle etc.).

Well, and this specific cartoon style allows them to still keep lots of detailing where mistakes don't matter, like on the hair, so that it doesn't look entirely simplistic...

For aesthetic reasons, I deeply dislike the style. It's indeed uncanny, and must be an average of a few other dominant art styles, yet doesn't directly resemble anything else. Even the exact font-face that tends to get used is hard to pin down.

And that's when I realized that I'm thankful that this current crop of models generates slop that looks like this. It has unintentionally hatched a style that is immediately recognizable as AI generated.

Sometimes I think about how many people in my school year growing up were complete fucking morons, and remember that they didn't stop existing after graduation.

"You don't have a menu so I'm out"

"What do you mean the requirement to view your menu is to create an account for a platform that gobbles up all my personal data to use it against me? Sounds like you should be paying me to eat here"

In a few years? Approximately 1% of the posters I see for local events are not AI generated... We're already flooded

I'm starting to realize how little people know about making art, and how little they think about the art and graphic design they see in the world.

Like even just looking at cereal boxes I think about how artists on the corporate payroll designed the layout and placed all the elements and I wonder if they started from a flat image and projected it onto a box or if they imagined the box first in their imagination and then thought about how it would be viewed from different angles, especially with regard to shelving...

Anyway I happen to know 3 designers, 2 of whom still work for corpo clients. I'm not a fan of their clients usually, but it's made me realize that there are real people making real artistic decisions behind almost everything you see. Well, at least there used to be. There's a bit less of that now thanks to the latest thing.

Tbf even knowing about A"I" it can be incredibly hard to tell apart some of the generated slop from things created by real artists. I even have some friends who draw themselves from time to time (so no full-time artists) who fell for some generated crap, we're still unsure if a human went over those cases or if there were simply so many pixelheaps created that one got close enough...

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I considered it but I wasn't alone