I love the trend of using AI to generate flyers/advertisements for everything: family reunion, restaurant, yard sale...

The shit all looks the same. Every taco truck in town uses the same crappy style advertisements, all the food looks the same (AI tacos, not pictures of actual food...)

I liked small business advertisements better when it was full of crappy fonts, clashing color choices, horrifying JPEG artifacts and all.

"Please use social media" would be equally apt.

Misses the mark IMO. You can already do all of these things. Just do them. As long as I get to fire half of my employees and you hit the token quota it’s all good.

I mean I get it hits you in the feels... but at the same time... DO talk to your friends, but then use AI too?

Like I don't want to say it's a strawman exactly, because some people probably do use AI too much. But it's a really emotional (and not exactly logical) play to emotions that sort of implies don't use AI at all, which I don't agree with.

Like if you're writing a speech for my wedding, please do a sanity check against AI before saying a really crass or risky joke. Because some of us have those maybe-on-the-spectrum acquaintances and AI actually can be a great sanity check for those people.

Thanks for beautiful words

Choosing AI over human authenticity is a death sentence.

Or, more accurately, Please don't.

what is up with the formatting on this post? does substack not have wordwrap and the guy is using manual carriage returns?

This, but for people who place a phone/iPad in their kids face to make them stop asking questions.