this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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I'm just going to keep posting this in response to every "I hate AI but" crusader I see in this community. It's perfectly encapsulates what they're doing.
oh i am so saving this up for the next time my idiot brother tries to invite me to a libertarian convention
I never thought I would miss photoslop.
Is that Monty Python?
Butt trumpets are a real thing that are seen in medieval manuscripts.
images as proof spoilered so as to not take up the whole damn page
the reference image:
some more i enjoyed
[above this point were from here], the rest are just random off-brand googles
That turned into
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Cats
And I’m here for it/them/they/those/uin’s.
i cannot post medieval art and not post medieval and renaissance cats. it wouldn't be prudent.
The publicly funded mobile theatre we have around here used a damned AI flyer this year. In the past, they just used pictures of their past performances as a background for their flyer. It looked professionally done - as did it this time. They hired a professional to make an AI flyer.
They hired a professional who cut corners
Not even just that! They included that the picture was made with AI in small print on the flyer. So it was a concious decision by all involved.
A few of my high school alums set up a zoom meeting where we could discuss plans for our 20 year reunion next year. I jumped on doing the graphic design, because I've been doing that and stuff adjacent to it since like 2002. While we were discussing roles they said "well we don't want to overburden you with all the graphic design stuff so others can do some designing the flyers and banners too" and a guy in the group chimes in like "yeah I can do that, I'm probably just going to run it through ChatGPT though, not gonna lie" and inside I'm just screaming.
I gently said that I am okay with doing the graphic design work, I'd just like to avoid the use of AI and there was an awkward silence.
I mean, I jumped on the graphic design role also for the express purpose of preventing the use of AI in the planning of the visual media surrounding this event. All the AI-generated company logos on vans and billboards, promo art on mailers that I see in my day to day life SUCK. There's no soul behind it. I wanted to prevent that here.
I figured that since I've done this stuff for decades and that I'm doing all this for free, they'd be fine with it but like, why do people have to insert AI into everything?? flails
why do people have to insert AI into everything
They think it's magical, much like how magnets or radium bewowed the uninformed masses more than a century ago, and the hucksters then coming up with some awful ideas using those.
Anyone wanting to use LLMs should be informed the damn things are being powered at data centers sucking up water and electricity, and making computer ownership godawfully expensive. Like 2tb hard drives now three or four times more expensive than I bought them more than a year ago.
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