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i know it achieves little to nothing but when i see it, i refuse to shop there. i will tell my friends to avoid it. i will send angry emails. an artist lost a paycheck and so will they

I don't trust anyone until they say they're 100% against AI. And I keep getting pie'd in the face with the opposite.

Taking away the art for a second, how tf do these people not know how to take a clear picture of their food and edit it on Photoshop and whatnot? That'd still save you a lot of effort and money of hiring people to draw it on a timeline and you'd be fine since photo editing software is universally-

It's so disappointing. It makes me question all kinds of things about how people value art that I'm not fully able to put into words, but it scars something deep inside my soul. And SO many places do this now. It's like seeing a sign on every corner that just says "I hate you" over and over again.

Similarly the small copywriting jobs for websites etc. No value attached to craft as opposed to slop.

AI can only generate by constantly consuming new material. If AI drives artists out of work and artists stop putting their work online out of self-protection, it may start eating its own tail due to lack of data and generate the same shit over and over again, which will suck for anyone who uses it.

I've learned that many people don't support the arts on a philosophical level. They don't see the purpose or value

I have a friend that works as a lifeguard at a Nike facility saw AI used for the graphic design for some stuff at the pool and convinced the management to let her design the stuff. Iirc they let her

I would literally rather have the person use public domain clip art or even if the owner drew a stick figure for a logo over anything AI generated

I go down that spiral every time I see like, a plumber’s truck. What a fucking bummer world we’re getting

You can go to a graphics shop that only hires disabled people and get something digitized for $15, there’s really no excuse

not all of them there is hope

Had hoped it was just a naive/older person thing, but checked a student union noticeboard and half the posters were AI

my friend and I were just discussing that we stop going to establishments and lose all respect for them when we see AI generated posters and flyers.... and there are so many

I’m taking time now to let favourite brands know this devalues their brand and is off putting to customers. #Enshittification

It is so disheartening, they'll say "Please support our small bussiness! We all have to support each other" while it feels like they've just spat on artists, like they of all people should know how important that 50-200 commission is worth to a SMALL BUSINESS.

Every time a small business uses GenAI for their advertisement instead of giving it to a niece or nephew who kind of likes to draw, they rob themselves of the possibility of getting something accidentally iconic. Nobody would give a shit about the Happy Foot/Sad Foot sign if it were AI

A lot of artists are willing to barter for the product or service the merchant sells. So even the relatively small up-front investment from the merchant is still a decent payday to the artist.

Like where's the solidarity

That’s what happens when they see every business online constantly saying “you can save money with ai! Use it or be left behind!”. To them, the service of their business matters more than graphics. They don’t know or don’t care, that it will cost their brand identity or customers.

I live in a city with one of the top art colleges in the US and I STILL see local businesses cheaping out with generative ai. It's frustrating!

If you don’t have the money to pay a person and your stuff looks like this I’m not shopping there.

For the sake of my sanity I must deny the existence of this reality

On the positive side, it's a great way to figure out what places don't deserve my business

technology is a bitch in the 60's my older sister was a long distance phone operator before tech invented direct calling and put her out of a job

All it tell me is that they don't care enough to put any real effort into their business.

It's actually discouraging and disheartening how much art is becoming an unsustainable career now. Everyone is too poor to commission artists and everyone is resorting to AI. We are in a very anti artist era and it's making me feel like my work isn't good enough.

I literally walked away from a shop this week when I noticed one of their signs was AI. We should be abandoning places that abandon humanity.

And this is how the lived in environment of the public is transformed into the narrow style of the same algorithmic method by a handful of companies. We see the same exact shit, everywhere we look.

they should all be boycotted.

As an unemployed creative, can confirm. There's no fucking freelance to be had, for love or money

It's extra bizarre when they had a perfectly good logo already, but changed it to AI just because. I talked to an older graphic designer who had a long-time client feed their art into the AI machine to generate new stuff. These businesses are tanking decades long relationships with this, too.

Referring to it as ai slop was doing damage. Yes, I do think less of places that uses ai.

The use of AI really just speaks "We have no true identity or fucks to give" at volume, I can't ever bring myself to patron any place that is about cheating and short cuts. Hard to not suspect that line of thinking would extend to their products.

Yeah, those types of jobs helped get me through college and the early days of my career, and even recently those kinds of jobs could help fill in gaps between larger gigs But those jobs started dwindling with the onset of widely available stock art, and now genAI is killing whatever was left 🫠

Pretty soon those local restaurants will have chefbots, cookbots, dishwasherbots, and waiterbots, with perky maitre’d’bots to greet you (after performing mandatory iris and facial-recognition scans on everyone in your party). Of course the food will taste like moldy cardboard, but, hey! Progress! 🤷‍♂️

I’m at the tail end of a 44-yr career as a graphic designer and I’m glad I’m not just starting out as a new art school grad. Technology advances put the vast majority of old school typesetters & type service bureaus out of business 30 yrs ago, and now it’s hit designers & illustrators.

However it also added another cap, responsibility to business owners. Also I wanna add do employees get paid extra to make content of the business for their employers? Is that part of hospitality now?

I’m at the point where i just refuse to use small businesses if they use ai in their signage. It’s hypocritical and just grosses me out.

Exactly why I will never use AI.

Not just that but how often they're willing to use even shoddy AI. Had customers giving me unusable AI adverts with incorrect details, missing information or even illegible text. Even when offering my graphic designs services to correct them 3 times out if 4 they'll just demand them printed.

When I see an AI slop poster all I can think is "what else don't they care about?" I went to the gun range and this gunsmith had one posted and I was like "if he doesn't care about the images and layout of his poster, how can I trust he won't make my handgun amputate my fingers?"

It makes me want to vandalize them

The trend of slapping "this is AI" stickers on shitty little signs and fliers and ads has been giving me at least some absolution lol

For our little business everyone from our consultant to friends said "just use AI for that" at so many stages from concept development to art design. Its wild.

At my printing job I see so much slop come through. Sometimes I prod the issue, ask if the customer would pay for a few hours of design work so I can convert the art to a vector that will scale to any size and last forever. Some do... A lot don't. They just want the cheapest option at every point.

Most ppl are struggling financially these days. And ppl will do anything to save a few $, but ironically it comes at the COST of enabling the very institution that deprives EVERYONE of livable wages, so that the few (1%) can hoard.

I do feel like some of this is also tied into Microsoft making its office suite a subscription. A lot of these types of things used to use clip art from Word (thinking menus, posters, etc, not logos as much). Small businesses just want a quick thing to use, and AI is being used instead of clip art.

“You cant even tell” like no we just dont go to your places cus its obvious as shit

a little $50 commission has saved my hide and given me the ability to eat something more than ramen, or let me keep lights on in my house. I'm privileged enough to have people I can ask for help, I just don't like to, but I cannot imagine how stressful life has gotten for those who don't have that