Re:Why Clip Art Was Everywhere Until It Wasn't [video]
by xnorswap on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:11AM
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Can people not earnestly cut-corners with genAI imagery?
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Re:Why Clip Art Was Everywhere Until It Wasn't [video]
by DaSHacka on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:19AM
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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.
Re:Why Clip Art Was Everywhere Until It Wasn't [video]
by Terr_ on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:21PM
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Re:Why Clip Art Was Everywhere Until It Wasn't [video]
by Xirdus on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:45PM
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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?