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Can people not earnestly cut-corners with genAI imagery?

No. I'm overall an AI proponent but even I feel an innate sense of disgust when seeing AI-generated flyers. Feels like some cyberpunk dystopia where machines have begun to organize, advertise, and run events for the 'trite human cattle' to keep them occupied.

Lazily-placed text in an otherwise blank word document that gets printed and stapled haphazardly to a posterboard is infinitely preferable.

I feel similar about LLM-generated text, though that's even more egregious. If I have to get one more fucking claude-written email from the company CEO I'm going postal. You have a slight excuse with art as most people couldn't draw to save their lives (including myself), but to write is literally to think.

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> And, in the case of executives they have ONE job (to lead by communicating), outsourcing such a basic soft-skill focused role to AI is just pathetic.

Weren't executives always outsourcing writing to their (human) assistants?

I definitely remember the same kind of disrespect being associated with clipart use.