AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
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A now famous Facebook post shows us the scourge of identikit posters generated by AI.
Here’s an article on the subject from the Independent .
Here’s another I found in the wild. With apologies for picking on the Leamington Beer Festival - they are by no means unique
The problem with these is not so much that they’re bad. They’re OK , I don’t love them. The problem is that once you’ve seen that style 20 times it starts to irritate just from the sheer repetition.
I knew that even ChatGPT was capable of a broader variety of styles than this, so I set out to prove it.
I gave ChatGPT some invented event details and asked it to produce a poster. Rather than go with the default look it would choose for a spring fayre, I made a point of specifying what I thought was a different style: