When going to work I pass two stores. One has an AI slop vomit of a poster, over fill with information and yet says nothing

The other has a simple blackboard. It still looks way better than the other

Just go pay a few high school students to make your flyer.

They’ll do it happily. I did stuff like this in school and I’d charge like $30/hr (15+ years ago) and everyone was very happy. Your offer should be even higher today.

If you want to make a flyer, call your local high school, ask to talk to the art or communications technology teachers, and ask what they think. The kids would love stuff for their portfolios, and I’m pretty sure kids like money too.

Or you can call your local art store, or find an artist to commission online. Or you could make a crappy flyer yourself without AI (please include date + location).

A Comic con did this with comic artist appearing at the event. What a slap in the face.

Also the MASSIVE theft of intellectual properties.

*So many Supermans

My local school (5-10yrs) is having an art exhibition for the students this week. Did they get one of the kids to design the flyer? Or maybe make it a group project? Or maybe one of the mums could spend 5 minutes in MS Paint? No? Too much effort? Let's get AI to do it instead.

I'm currently in some small French vacation towns in Southern France. Most shops have AI slop signs in their windows.

They ALL 👏 LOOK 👏 THE SAME! 👏

It's crazy! The same cartoon graphics. The same lettering. The same little dashes around the text. It's horrible.

Edit: It's even worse than I thought. There's full on AI video ads on TV and AI generated videos in historical documentaries. It's making me nauseous.

Ugh, I hate these. It makes me think: you cut corners on your flyer, something everyone sees, so what kinda corners do you cut where it's hidden from your clients??

Edit: Gross, this showed up on my news feed. A marathon event in Japan got caught using AI for their poster. They said "was made by an illustrator," but later apologized saying it should have said, "made by a graphic designer." Is this what graphic designers do now? I went to school for that and freelanced about 20 years ago, but I drew my own shit or manipulated actual photos and videos that my clients gave me.

"Artists"

My last job was small, like 4 people small. The owner loved Ai. She would use it for everything. One day i decided to redo one of her menus. Im not a graphic artist. I have no training in it at all, but i jumped on Gimp and made a prototype. She loved it and raved at how much better it was than hers. Imagine if i was an actual graphic designer...

Dude. Or when an actual musician advertises with ai art? Like, bro, you could have just used sharpie on lined paper and it would have been better. There's one like that that has signs up near where I live and every time I see it I'm just like BRUH. And then a few weeks ago at a public event I SAW THE MUSICIAN PLAYING, NEXT TO THEIR SIGN! I felt so bad for how stupid they were. Everybody avoided them like they were covered in shit. It was bad.

I like that reaction.

The food ones are so gross to look at

if you have more than 5 employees and use AI for your branding, I immediately dismiss your business

the face xD

It's a cosplay event.

Everyone will be cosplaying as an artist.

This haa some major meme template potential