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AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
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:
Produce a poster for a spring fayre.
21 April - 11am to 3pm
Mill Beach Park, Honeyford
Free entry
Tombola
Cakes and drinks
Performance by a samba band and a dhol band.
Craft stalls
Circus Skills workshop
Go for a clean, unfussy, bright layout with a bold striking spring-themed
graphic. Avoid pastel/airbrush/oil style art or images of people.
Not as successful as I hoped. To me it still feels like what I’m trying to
avoid.
Make another one using a completely different design aesthetic of your choice.
Treat the current one as a “what not to do” – not that there is anything
wrong with it, but we want ours to stand out from other posters that look
similar.