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.
I would have to agree that AI has valid use cases, this seems like one. My issue with AI is people’s insistence on trying to shoehorn it into everything and then using it (just because it’s there) to churn out shite, like the phone queen example the op gave us.
People have been advertising their small business or event with crappy clipart and a complete lack of design sense for as long as we’ve had access to personal computers. Didn’t stop people making these things a success.
The current wave of stuff they’re making with LLM tools just all have this uncanny valley feel where all you can see are the slop markers and, for me at least, it’s incredibly distracting from what the thing is even trying to tell me.
Do I think there’s a meaningful loss of business for people using LLMs? Probably not, but I’m not alone in just now ignoring any product, service or event if it uses LLM image generation to advertise it.
Of course, this is just a lot faster, so it’s equally shitty, but more time effective for them.
The sooner they have to pay for shit like this, the sooner it should reduce… I think the amount of “free” usage is too damn high.
They’re like drug dealers handing out free samples, they’re getting people hooked so when they jack the prices up they’ll be desperate for it.