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Just got this in the parent app, Ive truly become unhinged in that I responded immediately to the post: Ai really? Slop.
I cant take it anymore. A lady at the checkout of my dr appointment yesterday had a large poster, ehem, large ai poster of herself as a queen with text on it like "phone queen" and it was so hard to stand there and not say anything.
Imma get introuble at my son's school this year, I can tell. Fuck Camino Alto, Fuck ai.
It sucks ass, but at least it's not a tryptophoic burrito or Riverstone's hash browns. These waste of resources just make me mad, not sick :)
Same here
The problem (at least in public schools in my country) is that those flyers are made by a teacher during their unpaid free time, so they try to get maximum result in minimum time. Before genai they would use a canva template and before canva a PowerPoint template. It always been some kind of slop.
The solution would be easier: You're a middle school so just let the kids do it during a lesson of an art or computer class....
Not as "pretty" as the genai but definitely not as sterile
AI used like this is basically just the modern version of The Print Shop. It was immediately obvious back then that someone used it and it gave a similar low effort feel, but nothing to get so upset about. Also consider that the school staff may retaliate against your child in ways that may not be visible to you. https://archive.org/details/msdos_broderbund_print_shop
The issue is that AI can actually have useful purposes, but we know that those managing it don't give a single flying fuck about that. They only want it for the most nefarious purposes possible.
We should be using AI to make nice flyers for school events, not tracking the movements and personal finances of every person. Unfortunately, since they only want to use AI to enslave us, we have to surrender all the positive things it could do.
Just have the kids in the art department design the flyers.
Fact is people pay more attention when it looks nice and they probably don't have a budget and time for a graphic designer.
People are getting mad just to get mad. Nobody is going to read a word doc poster and it literally takes longer to make, it's just how it is.
Canva makes so easy to just get a template, modify it slightly in ~15-30 minutes and have something looking good enough, no need for a graphic designer
I mean staff at the school probably just wanted a nice poster and don’t have the time or skill to do it. I generally hate AI but I also wouldn’t get upset about this. As lazy as it may seem, it might be someone doing the best they can with what is available to them.
As i said in another comment:
Canva makes so easy to just get a template, modify it slightly in ~15-30 minutes and have something looking good enough, no need for a graphic designer
Agreed. I feel like some people here just get super triggered when they see AI stuff. I'm not a fan either, but getting infuriated because of every slop they see anywhere will become frustrating soon. The sad reality is that AI is easy and convenient and most people are lazy.
EDIT: I just noticed that this was posted in the fuck_ai community. Please continue lol
Yeah fuck ai. But you're getting angry at the smallest fish in the pond. Choose your battles.