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can't slop won't slop
I'm imagining a remix of this comic where the bottom left panel has the no AI kitty photoshopped on top of the flier and the bottom right panel has the girl's face from the top right photoshopped onto her face
When going to work I pass two stores. One has an AI slop vomit of a poster, over fill with information and yet says nothing
The other has a simple blackboard. It still looks way better than the other
Just go pay a few high school students to make your flyer.
Theyโll do it happily. I did stuff like this in school and Iโd charge like $30/hr (15+ years ago) and everyone was very happy. Your offer should be even higher today.
If you want to make a flyer, call your local high school, ask to talk to the art or communications technology teachers, and ask what they think. The kids would love stuff for their portfolios, and Iโm pretty sure kids like money too.
Or you can call your local art store, or find an artist to commission online. Or you could make a crappy flyer yourself without AI (please include date + location).
Just go pay a few high school students to make your flyer.
They'll likely use AI.
Everything I've heard and experienced being the dad of a teenager is that the kids all hate AI. She abhors it with a passion and her friends are similarly aligned against AI. For literally any use.
Now, college kids, you're probably right, but she's not there yet (and my back doesn't hurt enough yet for that).
Then donโt pay those kids.
You meet them, walk through what you want, price, time estimate, write it down, then check back when theyโre done.
But Iโm guessing that the teachers, if theyโre okay with this, would point you towards the more interested kids.
"Artists"
My local school (5-10yrs) is having an art exhibition for the students this week. Did they get one of the kids to design the flyer? Or maybe make it a group project? Or maybe one of the mums could spend 5 minutes in MS Paint? No? Too much effort? Let's get AI to do it instead.
And the number of people who seem to be happy to feed pictures of their families and kids into AI astounds me.
That's really sad to hear
Having it be a large collage made by the students as a collaborative project would have been SO MUCH better
I like that reaction.
I don't usually like comics where the punchline is a face, but this one nail it.
I agree about putting your name on AI artwork as it's yours is questionable at best. But it's going a tad overboard with this type of stuff. If I had no access to create artwork for a flyer or skill to even know how to do it, I still wouldn't hire someone to make one for me, as a person. It would just look like dog shit and it covey the information.
As a non designer I'd use AI to make a better looking flyer. This IMO would be a reasonable use of AI. They were never going to spend money on a designer to begin with. In fact, 30 years of doing graphic design I've never had a "person" come in for a flyer. I've made hundreds for larger company and corporations, but never a "person" for a small event, at least paid, I've done a few favors for friends or voulebteered services.
I'm just saying, everything isn't AI is evil. These people aren't customers and never were, so who GAF. It's kinda like Nintendo suing all the emulators thinking those users will all buy a Switch now. They won't, or they already have.
If I had no access to create artwork for a flyer or skill to even know how to do it
then you wouldn't host an event for artists.