Consumers report avoiding restaurants with AI-generated food imagery
7 Sep 19 7:38 AM · 7d ago · 6 comments · 1 source · development 7 of 7
A user reports that while traveling in Japan with friends, the group actively avoided small restaurants displaying AI-generated food images, viewing the use of AI as a signal that the business didn't care enough to invest genuine effort. They note that even a food menu drawn by a toddler felt 'infinitely more sympathetic' than AI-generated content.
“Using AI generated bullshit just shows that you really dont want to put in the work to produce something actually charming…a food menu drawn by a toddler…was infinitely more sympathetic”
sevenzeroJohn Hartnup Designer, article authorChatGPT AI model used for poster generation
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It sure seems like, while LLMs and diffusion models won't completely eradicate the middle class, the bar has now risen significantly to actually contribute in a lot of areas.For programmers, sure SV startups and actual software-first shops are probably only augments with LLMs and not replacing. But what % of software engineers are employed in such…
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You’re comparing the sub-minimum-wage offshore template jockeys to average designers, not “high end” designers. High-end designers do not make posters for local events.It would be like saying off-shore outsource coders are average coders, and anyone making anything close to a reasonable dev salary in this job market was a high-falutin’ luxury…
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A lot of people in the comments say that the supposedly better examples in the article are still “horrible” because they can tell they’re AI and point to things that the AI did “wrong” and a human artist would do better.That may be true if you’re working with a top of the line artist, but in my experience the average freelance designer online is…
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The original posters were better than any of the mockups.Not because they looked good, but because they used a design language that "at-a-glance" said what the event was. Sure, the designers republic/etc looked less commonplace, but if I was looking for a fun local faire I would absolutely never notice those posters and if I went i'd assume it was…
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If anything that shows that AI doesn't replace skilled people. It accelerates the production of these assets, still requires skill and knowledge to produce good results.Up until recently, you'd pay someone else to create these. The organizer of an event or concert doesn't have the artistic talent to create these, nor skills in design/Photoshop…
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This is one of the most interesting post I've seen, and that's the way people should work with AI. A brainstorming session, with background and references, with broad knowledge of the field, then with clear instructions on how to proceed, different designs, propositions out of the ordinary, etcI've been doing that for the last six months and the…
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One thing I've noticed with AI posters is that they're all "flat" in terms of attention. For whatever reason, they result in a post where every part is on the same level visually, and your eye does not get drawn to anything. You can't immediately see what is and isn't important.The bad posters are absolute disasters in this regard. (And completely…
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I work in a copy-print center where we take orders for business card, posters, flyers, invitations, and all sorts like that. Lately, I have been getting more and more AI generated artwork for these flyers and business cards, and they are not sized correctly. I can tell it's AI generated not from style, layout, or even hallucinations, but just the…
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There's a similar problem with AI-generated video, but it's in the time dimension. There's a huge genre of Asian vertical dramas, and now about 17,000 a day are being cranked out by AI systems. But there are maybe ten major plots. "Lost daughter of rich family comes home" appears over and over. There are longer videos where the plot gets lost. I…
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I'm a big fan of FixIt Clinics, i.e. community repair workshops. Here's an example of one of their posters:https://allevents.in/mattapan/fix-it-clinic/200026636930752Here's what I like about it: it communicates. What, when, and where. And crucially, photos showing what the event looks like. Photos of real people fixing real things.The author…
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Word processors are designed to maximise readability, handling things like alignment and white space with zero effort from the user.These posters don't have the feature of readability. They inconsistently apply the required design principles for this. Removing some of the clutter helps, but a WordArt poster from 1992 is still a better final…
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To me if you ask to a 10 years old kid and give him a PC with Microsoft Paint on it it will you will have a much better result than any AI-generated option in the post. If there are graphics designer that produce a worse result of what AI creates, it's because they probably use AI as well.The problem of AI generated stuff (we see the problem of…
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> The problem is that once you’ve seen that style 20 times it starts to irritate just from the sheer repetition.But that's how the algorithm behind LLMs functions. It simply cannot create something unique by stepping out of its existing knowledge base. It has to refurbish existing data, because, well, that's all it has.One might argue that a human…
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Removing as many possible steps to a craft makes it far less personal. Disconnecting the human from the end product.I would never attend an event with an entirely generated poster becuase that tells me you didn't care enough, and that attitude is probably permeating into the rest of the event.Similarly, back before these models existed, I'd never…
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Absolutely. I've had the identical experience hiring artists for game art/UI. Every once in a while you find an artist who is stellar but most everyone else is not that good.The TFA is pointing to a prompting skills/creativity issue, but I get equally frustrated with hired artists as with genAI image models. Even with skilled human artists…
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Is there an explanation for why AI images, or posters, look "AI"? What I mean is that even some of the better ones, that I quite like, have a distinct AI look that I can’t quite put my finger on.Some elements are, the very saturated color or being overly busy, but not all images have these tells, and not all of them.For a while I thought it was…
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I think basically AI posters are bad because when given freedom to the model (which is what people will do when just asking "make me a poster for my coffee shop"), the model will always tend to do the same design style. So yes, as this article says, with better prompting you CAN get better results. The other problem I think is tool calling…
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Ach, idk. On average people have horrible design aesthetics, yet are now so arrogant about it, because they feel confident that their newly found ability to spot AI design equates to being able to spot bad design.No, you silly geese. What you are able to spot is when somebody uses AI poorly and you think that's you developing taste. It's the…
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I am impressed by the number of artists that follow HN even outnumbering programmers. Programmers are not artists, artists see the world in colors while we see it in black and white (just look at this page). There are a few really great artist/programmers among us but they're a very rare specimenFor us programmers, something maybe be good enough…
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As somebody who made a poster for an event just few days ago... I find it funny that this probably took just as long as without AI while probably going through a less rewarding process with little control and very limited learning.A non professional design would probably take few hours doing it the very first time, discovering the software to do…
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You’re absolutely right! (See what I did, there?)I mentioned something similar, in a previous comment.The sad part, is that the same thing is likely to happen to design, as is already happening with software development.The junior training track is going to get the bottom ripped out. Established outfits like Pentagram will do fine, but lesser…
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It used to be that all the available art generation systems would make mistakes on text, making the letters into weirdly shaped non-letter blobs and/or having strange typos all over the place (that were probably from getting the letter-shapes confused rather than not knowing how to spell words).How exactly did that get fixed? It seems like…
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My hypothesis:One way to bias the generative output away from ugly generic sloppy defaults and towards something you personally prefer and desire based on your taste ... is to show it examples of what good looks like to you.It is very hard for us to describe in words why you like a certain thing. But you can spot it when you see it. Or you can…
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As a guy who used to do art direction and was a creative director i can with some confidence say that: “most “designs sucks balls” and 95% of the worlds population DO NOT CARE.I wish it was different but estetics, color sensitivity and for a lack of better word “taste” is a skill that needs training - the kerning alone on those make me sad - but…
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