The author claims that the AI posters don’t have to be horrible, but fail to see that the dozen variations generated are not distinctive - they might have somewhat different typography or imaginary, but still have the same AI uniformity and smell as the crappy restaurant poster you see on the street. The core issue is not only technical, but also the lack of vision and imagination when creating art or even infographics.
The variations the author generates are night and day better than the "piss filter" era slop in the first batch.
Some of them would have passed as intentionally crafted by a graphics designer before AI.
And let's not forget that before AI, many of these would be word doc printouts with clip art. The alternative wasn't hiring a designer - the alternative was doing nothing special at all.
I was honestly ok with the silly looking posters. Where I'm in italy it's common to have sagre, sort of cheap food events sponsored by the municipality. Before ai the posters looked like each other (as in, poster typically looking like sagre posters). Now not even that, they're just slop ai that could be everything before you read. Nobody needed better looking posters in this case...
Before ai example <a href="https://www.sagretoscane.com/sagre/fi/rignano-sullarno/sagra-del-cinghiale-rignano.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.sagretoscane.com/sagre/fi/rignano-sullarno/sagra...
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DZiKFZgIwcY/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/p/DZiKFZgIwcY/
Here's an article by the biggest online Italian newspaper, worth reading translated <a href="https://www.ilpost.it/2026/07/26/ai-locandine-sagre/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ilpost.it/2026/07/26/ai-locandine-sagre/
And the old fluo ones are more effective than decorated new ones, since they're mostly on road sides and you need to be able to tell at a glance what they're about. I unironically went to a sagra recently because I spotted a similar fluo advert while cycling in Tuscany
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Some of them would have passed as intentionally crafted by a graphics designer before AI.
And let's not forget that before AI, many of these would be word doc printouts with clip art. The alternative wasn't hiring a designer - the alternative was doing nothing special at all.
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Before ai example <a href="https://www.sagretoscane.com/sagre/fi/rignano-sullarno/sagra-del-cinghiale-rignano.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.sagretoscane.com/sagre/fi/rignano-sullarno/sagra...
Post Ai example <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DZiKFZgIwcY/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/p/DZiKFZgIwcY/
Here's an article by the biggest online Italian newspaper, worth reading translated <a href="https://www.ilpost.it/2026/07/26/ai-locandine-sagre/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ilpost.it/2026/07/26/ai-locandine-sagre/
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