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this very strange leaflet from my mailbox

I did notice the listed postal code is for a location several km away in north york; correct postal code = M6H 1A5.

It says "Holiday Health Savings" but there is no holiday even proximate to last week, when I got this.

The location is listed on the provincial Where to buy alcoholic beverages. This surprised me but I'm still getting used to the new liquor sales rules.

Are AIs opening stores now?

Or is proofreading dead?

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago

It is so bad, it is probably not even AI, just incompetent human.

[–] Sandbar_Trekker@lemmy.today 20 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

That's not AI, that's just a bad Photoshop/InDesign job where they layered the text underneath the image of the coupon with Protein bottles. The image has a white background, if it had a clear background there would have been no issue.

Edit: Looking a little closer, it looks more like some barely off-white arrow was at the top of the coupon image.

Edit2: if you're talking about the text that looks like a prompt, it could be a prompt, or it could be a description of what they wanted someone to put on the poster. The image itself doesn't look like AI considering those products actually exist and AI usually doesn't do so well on small text when you zoom in on a picture.

Edit 4: Tap here for images of the items used for the coupon:

[–] Vraylle@fedia.io 6 points 12 hours ago

Nah, just someone trying to position an image in a Word doc.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 6 points 13 hours ago

Nah, probably just some marketing intern who didn't understand the assignment.

AI would just create a super-saturated 3D images with pseudo-latin texts.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago

It doesn't have any of the signs of AI, just a very poor Photoshop

[–] zonnewin@feddit.nl 3 points 12 hours ago

AI would have done a better job.

[–] junkthief@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Edit: the highlighted text really does look like a prompt someone would use in ChatGPT or similar, but the ad itself just looks like crappy photoshop, how odd

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 4 points 16 hours ago

I would say it's just someone who is bad at making posters. AI stuff doesn't tend to look like that.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Supplement scams are nothing new, and AI or not, the quality hardly matters. Poor grammar and errors can work as a filter to exclude people too smart to be a mark.

Whether its a real shop is unclear, maybe the rest of the stuff is filler?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 14 hours ago

Looks like a prompt or maybe alt text for an image that didn't render correctly.