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To me, this is a valid use for AI. You can get a decently professional looking poster made inexpensively. Inexpensive is what small businesses need, and this way, they can compete with the big guys. Their only other options are to pay big bucks that they might not be able to afford or make their own, which will likely look crappy. I’m fine with it.
Our local high school uses AI to make posters for sports events and I’m cool with that too. I’d rather they use AI to make posters than to use their budget on someone to make it professionally.
But it’s not. Posters for a high school don’t need to look professional. They need to be done by someone learning to use their skills to make cool looking posters. AI poster look fucking ass.
Except they’re not doing this. They’re using the first piece of crap that ChatGPT spits out and throwing that up, and it’s clearly, obviously AI-generated, which is incredibly off-putting.
I think the students should be making that? Isn’t there an arts department? Or a student government?
Instant walkout. If they’ve already started a dialogue, I (respectfully) let them know why I’m not buying—otherwise I don’t bother. I’d literally rather see a shitty MS Paint drawing than an AI generated picture.
Are you using ai to write this??
I’m using i to write this.
FN A BROTHER
Just checking because of the emdash 🤣
Dude… alt-gr+dash, or cmd+dash or alt+dash depending on your flavor of OS/keyboard layout. The whole em-dash = ai is so annoying to me cause I’ve been using em-dashes way before LLMs came to spoil the fun.
Back before llms poisoned it (and I still used Windows), I had the alt code for em dash memorized (prob still have the muscle memory to do it, but not currently at a numpad) because I really liked using them in papers I had to write for school. I read lots of books back then, and recognized how much I preferred using em dashes to commas in specific cases.
I hate that I can’t use them anymore lest I be mistaken for someone who uses llms
forreal, it’s one of my favorite ways to break up a sentence. it’s also stupid to accuse of Ai for one piece of grammar, when there’s typically multiple tells to pay attention to when it comes to Ai.
let’s not forget that llms were originally trained on human-made text too. we are the ones who made the patterns first. llms simply regurgitate it
That’s why I ask! I respect that real people use it. It’s a valid punctuation
Or on the X Window System:
⇧ Shift+AltGr(aka. multi key), then--.
I’m on an iPhone, which autocorrects two dashes (- -) to an emdash.
My bad! I learned something today
No wtf?
Yeah, using AI art for advertisements etc is lower bar than amateur throwing stuff together in paint, gimp, inkscape or some random office software.
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Local is still better than giving your money to evil corp. And honestly, local shops struggle against bigger corps. They don’t have graphic design artists on hand to make posters. What are you expecting them to do. The shops that don’t have AI generated posters usually have menus and posters that are years out of date because it costs too much to update them.
Couldn’t they simply take some pictures of the items/services they provide? Then PowerPoint all that shit together in a pleasing format? You dont need to hire Picasso for fucks sake.
Powerpoint isn’t free. And using it is not simple. Small busniess owners often work substantially more than 40 hours a week. Looking down on them because they didn’t want to spend another 5 or more hours learning powerpoint seems pretty entitled.
I honestly had no idea apparently some people pay for PowerPoint. 🤣
I’m sure there is an open source equivalent.
Right, but asking a local business owner, like a mom and popwho run a restaurant to even know what powerpoint is… is pushing it. Expecting them to know there is a free alternative is very unlikely.
You’re coming up with bullshit excuses for peoples failings now.
Have you ever met someone who doesn’t work on a computer all day?
Here is a link to the us census data showing that 1 in 7, or over 18 million people don’t have a laptop or pc in their house. Not everyone lives and breathes by computers.
How many of those people are business owners who can’t design a fucking menu?
asking a local business owner, like a mom and popwho run a restaurant to even know what powerpoint is… is pushing it.
Maybe they should ask ChatGPT what powerpoint is.
Hey, that actually was funny.
I am too
I don’t like it, but big corps are already getting away with it so I’m not judging too harshly.
Yup, I genuinely refuse to support businesses actively using AI.
Gonna be every single one very soon. No one has PC skills anymore to make photos. Sad but hey, signmakers are all long dead now too.
I’m bothered, but i can’t fully blame them, as they probably have someone else did it for them. I’ve seen a lot of sign/poster/banner designer these day used AI to do the graphic and print, they stopped offering designing since they’ve figured out they can do this easily. So people who need stuff made and printed either have their stuff made with AI, or they have to do it themselves.
I’ve seen designer made a simple “now hiring” sign with AI, which result in shit silhouette that isn’t readable far, instead of simply “NOW HIRING” with whatever design software. Design is dead.
I reject the idea that shopping at a business is “support”. Like buying chicken nuggets at the gas station is some kind of civic responsibility; I’m a patron.
Capitalists have actually convinced people that shopping is a moral act. In America, we don’t protest in the street. We burn our Nikes in a Tic Tock.
We live in a capitalist society. Money equals power. Giving a place your money effectively contributes to their power. Unfortunately that means it’s not entirely unreasonable to equate patronage with support and it’s generally reasonable to draw moral conclusions based on what people support.
Obviously it shouldn’t be the only or primary way we engage in activism, but boycotting or shifting patronage is a reasonable part of a political movement under capitalism. Sometimes patronage cannot be helped, but we should do what we can to support places (sometimes financially) that best align with our morals.
Actually wtf lmao. Capitalists just want your money, they don’t give a fuck about morals.
By purchasing a product, you are directly financially supporting whoever you purchase said product from. The profits from that transaction will contribute to them being able to continue their business.
This is like, really incredibly basic shit. Are you real??
The first mistake was going to a local business. #fsmallbusiness
It’s not easy to own a small business. Sometimes they just have to try whatever fits within the budget.
It’s not hard! They need only take some decent pics and throw em into a document. Hell they can even put some text to remind people that the picture is authentic rather than AI trash from their competitors.
Most customers are not Lemmy users. Slapping some pics into a document and just printing that out has never looked good. That was more acceptable for small businesses in the past, but now it’s so cheap and easy to make it look more professional using some AI prompts. Skipping that step looks like much lower effort.
It’s fine to hate AI, but when someone has a family to feed and employees to pay, it’s understandable if they have to be a bit more open-minded.
Slapping some pics into a document and just printing that out has never looked good
Neither does AI slop
make it look more professional
It doesn’t make it look more professional. It makes it look like they’re cheapskates and assholes.
It doesn’t make it look more professional. It makes it look like they’re cheapskates and assholes.
They’re the same picture dot jif
I don’t think the AI prompt is the issue. The problem with these shit posters is using fake food or fake pictures. I want authenticity and refusing to show it over some disingenuous CGI slop is just plain bad.
Also, I don’t want to see what this dish/product looks like in theory, I want to see what I’m about to buy
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Most of them didn’t. Most still don’t.
AI is not going to help them survive, and the attitudes people are expressing in this thread are part of why.
I hate even more that I get there and they tell me “you know you can get it cheaper on Amazon” or “we no longer stock it but you can get it on Amazon”. Bud, I can get every single thing in your store on Amazon and yes, it is often cheaper but I am trying to keep local stores and local jobs alive.
This happened to me a few weeks ago when I was looking through thrift shops to put together a Halloween costume. I went looking store to store for overalls, asked the employees if they had any suggestions. The elderly ladies had legit suggestions (that simply didn’t work out for me), but the young staff just went, “Try Amazon?”
The sad truth is, the youngin’s never lived in a world without Amazon. They don’t know the local stores like the older folks do. Perhaps they’ve never gone from thrift store to thrift store looking for treasures (even if they work in a thrift store.) It’s possible the idea of “avoiding Amazon” has never occurred to them.
employees justifiably hate their employers
and small businesses typically abuse their employees far worse than mega corps which is saying something in a world of Walmarts and Amazon’s
the sweet spot is a company that’s small enough to maintain a culture and the owners still have a vision but big enough they have to follow the rules pay taxes and have an hr department
of course there is no ethical consumption or production under capitalism but I didn’t create this world just suffering along with everyone else
Sweet spot is shops that require staff with some level of skills or knowledge which makes them a bit more difficult to replace.
OP needs to get off their high horse and join reality.
What reality? If its AI generated it has no value.
The reality is that knocking a mom & pop for using ai generated junk is fucking stupid. They’re not a corpo mega giant like walmart that could afford a graphic designer. Get off your fucking high horse.
Don’t care, not going to pay for it.
Great job! I think i’ll join so that every mom and pop goes out of business and then we’re left with massive mega corps who again, wil just use ai slop. What a plan!!! Every main street in the US will go under because grandma used AI to make a flyer. Stupid dipshit.
Plenty are not using AI too.
Bakery round the corner from where I work doesn’t use AI or even poster. To advertise they fill the wall with bread, buns, pastries and cakes.
You’re using a piece of software in 2026. I can guarantee you that lemmyworld uses AI in some section of it’s stack and I’d be willing to bet that bakery uses ai for accounting. So it’s okay for you to use AI developed software but not for a mom and pop? Go delete your account and get out of here with this bullshit.
Less bothered when its in the background. But when its the product or blatantly plastered over everything? Fuck that. It looks cheap and shit.
