Walking around the city/inner city suburbs I see all the terrible AI food posters everywhere and now on my walk home from the shops I see this on the road and was in genuine disbelief. How could any company think this looks good?
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They probably honestly either don’t care or know any better.
They don’t care if it looks good, they care about how much it costs. AI art is “free”
Whilst a lot of us online are against AI slop, a lot of people just don’t care and if it makes their advertisements easier / cheaper they’re gonna do it.
It gets the job done
False advertising, I bet he’s nowhere near that handsome.
Why do you care?
I don’t know why you’re so surprised honestly.
Most small businesses aren’t going to go to the expense of hiring a graphic designer if they can do it for free via AI. And TBH that one looks decent compared to some of the slop I see regularly on signs, banners, menus etc.
I’m surprised we don’t see more of it.
“art”
So many are and it is always that same simple look.
With decent prompting you can get something that looks a bit more better.
inb4 the reeeee slop brigade, we know this already.
edit: lol the brigade is here on the downvote button already.
How do I block the word AI on here, so sick of hearing about it constantly
Welcome to the slopocalypse
AI is the new stock image.
Businesses used to have generic looking stock images as part of their branding. Now they can tailor it to their needs.
To some people, it looks like AI slop, but to a lot of people it will just look like ‘reasonably’ polished part of their brand.
I don’t think many people care where the image comes from (stock or AI), they only care if it looks professional.
I dont think its really fair to take shots at what looks like a small business trying their best to brand. They probably don’t even realise it.
I hate AI but assuming he’s not a dickhead, it doesn’t bother me that much. I don’t think it’s right, but I can see why someone would use it.
My advice, never use a company that does multiple trades
Not sure what the issue is here. Wtf cares?
You ask “how could any company think this looks good?”
The answer sadly is that our expectations and our “threshold of acceptability” have been steadily lowered over the years if not decades, and the preponderance of AI-generated images has just hastened the inevitable.
It’s the basic rule of “if it’s good enough, it’ll do” – and to be honest this is good enough for pretty much everyone, and that is the target audience for this bloke and his business.
Unfortunately it’s the way that most tradies are going because they don’t have any design experience. The graphics design studios the tradies go for have taken on AI as a really cheap way to get their money.
AI looks fancy, but it really churns out some real generic shit.
Dont waste your time with a tradie who has ‘art work’ with five fingers on each hand. Go for the early adopters with 6 or more. Lol.
You specifically, in the past, held the notion or belief that: “I will never see AI art on a business vehicles” and now you are shocked that that was proven to be incorrect?
It’s not art, it’s advertising, and in that regard it’s worse because this is actually denying a person a job, as opposed to people using AI as a form of self expression.
What’s wrong with it? Looks good for a wrap.
Really not sure I see the problem here.
Yeah I wouldn’t say Thats AI exactly… seen that sort of detailing for 5 – 10 years.
This will be the period of time where it’s obvious a human didn’t do the design work.
Then, at some point in the near future, even the best eye will have no idea whether a computer or human did the design work.
And then …. eventually … we’ll just assume a computer designed it.
Bypassing artists with AI definitely has an economic side to it, but I think there’s also an ideological one. A lot of the people who were discouraging and demeaning artists as ‘jobless starving lefty creatives’ usually followed that sentiment with one about getting a real job like a trade.
At least it has the correct number of fingers
I’m guessing you’re too young to remember how often small businesses used to just flat out use clip art in their logos and advertising materials. Mostly they’re just doing the bare minimum of branding. Pick some colours. Pick a simple icon that indicates the thing that your business does. This isn’t a substitute for the work of a designer, it’s a substitute for clip art.
I can see why a lot of smaller businesses use it. So much cheaper to do their own design sitting in front of the PC in a few mins then send it off to the wrapping company for printing.
So many people using ai for menus now. I cant not see them its so disgusting haha
I’d rather a tradie that does this and is capable of fixing my house rather than one that was a savvy designer that was no good at the trade he is hired to do
AI images*, not art. That shit isn’t art and is actively destroying the livelihoods of real artists.
I don’t see the problem here. Sure AI slop can be annoying, but how is this a problem?
Looks better/good as most wrapped business vehicles. Genuinely this is where I see no problem with ai. I would have preferred an extra finger on at least one of the hands.
Who cares?
Who are these people getting triggered by this and the food posters?
Are you just constantly thinking about AI 24/7?
Go seek a therapist.
Never has old mate plumber bob, who’s printed his mobile number on an A4, and taped it on his car door been more trusted
AI will end up destroying a lot of industries, if not all of them, and probably end up Termintor-ing all us jobless bums. So I guess there’s an upside.
So tradie vans were all works of fine art before AI?
This is exactly the kind of place I’d expect to see it and couldn’t really care less about.
Jim, is that You?
“Jim’s AI”
what’s wrong with it?
I see these appearing on some buses now, not so much cartoon ones but you know it’s AI.
I couldn’t care less if they are a good tradie.
I’m a designer and not a fan of ai, but honestly more weirded out by the american coded hand on heart pose than it being ai
If it’s done well, and checked for errors why not use it. Businesses did this type of advertising before, it just cost a lot.
Pro tip, get the first draft from Ai, drop into canva, do magic layers and now you can edit each element individually, pro results, fraction of time and cost.