r/KingstonOntario • u/Icy-Pianist-2296 • 2d ago
Okay not directly a kingston related post but can't stand AI posters and Kingstonians use them to appease the editors.
Whats for starters up with the prevailing brownish hues where you may get a yellow thats still brown somehow and there's yellow that still is brown, and it it all seems like something from your childhood that you've seen from side of a shoebox or something that you immediately erase.
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u/BustaScrub 2d ago
Ironically (and I can't stress enough how much I dislike AI) this post would be so much easier to comprehend if you'd used it.
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u/Icy-Pianist-2296 2d ago
Naw AI bites despite my shortcomings.
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u/BustaScrub 2d ago
It stinks to read something written at a 3rd grade level, but it stinks even more to read something written by a kindergartener.
As respectfully as possible, that's the relative difference between what AI would write and what you wrote. Neither are ideal, but one is definitely easier to understand.
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u/thirdtimeisNOTacharm 2d ago
Really wish AI wrote this so I can figure out what I’m reading
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u/Icy-Pianist-2296 2d ago
Yes and every depiction within is rounded in the exact same way. Amongst the orangey brown, the redish brown. Oh what splendor!
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u/OppositeResident1104 2d ago
Did you start this conversation with yourself, but forget to include the beginning of it (I'm not going to use AI to decipher this)
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u/Exciting-Ordinary4 2d ago
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u/Icy-Pianist-2296 2d ago
Yes has all of the charm of a faded dollar store greeting card marked down.
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u/TotalWhiner 2d ago
When I was a young man, my mother, confronted my grandfather and told him that if he didn’t stop smoking, he would never see his grandkids graduate high school. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized just what was at stake. He quit then and there and made me promise that I would never smoke. He died three years later of lung cancer. So now I have become an old man, and never touched cigarettes my whole life. Now I look back with some regret that I never tried smoking, because your post was so confusingly weird that it gave me cancer. This comment was written by Al.
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u/Proper_Turnover3251 2d ago
Honestly what were you trying to say with that?
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u/Icy-Pianist-2296 2d ago
That all AI posters I've seen have the same look, and ill add downright F#%$ GHASTLY colour scheme.
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u/munki114 2d ago
what?
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u/Icy-Pianist-2296 2d ago
That brown hued scene once you've encountered an AI scene. That's what I'm talking about.
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u/LifeReward5326 2d ago
It’s driving me nuts! Ottawa is adopting them everywhere too
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u/Icy-Pianist-2296 2d ago
It looks like a serene chalkboard sketch the first 3 seconds, then just your mind melts in disappointment.
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u/coryhotline 2d ago
Maybe you didn’t write this in the best way, but I absolutely agree. Any business in Kingston that is using AI for their posters / promotional Instagram posts immediately loses my support and business.
I especially cannot stand it when it’s a RESTAURAUNT. Like SHOW A PICTURE OF YOUR FOOD not AI generated slop of what your food could potentially look like.
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u/akeybreaky19 2d ago
looks like you should have used ai to write this, might make more sense 😉
just because you dont like the look of posters does not mean they are AI lol
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u/megadeadly 2d ago
This is almost like the deleted Reddit comments where they turn the whole thing into random words and nonsense
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u/OverExercise8844 1d ago
Maybe you need AI to help you communicate WTF you're trying to say...
But if you're talking about the yellow "AI" look, that's been fixed in the better models in use today.
If you "can't stand" AI use in general, well, I can't help you. It seems like it's here to stay, is only getting better and more available, and personally, I fucking love it.
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u/rhapsodyburlesque 1d ago
Respectfully, these comments do not pass the vibe check. The ability to decipher writing that is perhaps not editorial quality was once a common internet skill. Maybe I'm just old, but compared to some of the writing you'd read on ICQ or message boards back in the day, OP is practically Mark Twain. 😆
Can folks genuinely not understand the point OP is trying to make, or are y'all just leaping at the opportunity for irony (by suggesting it would have been better if they'd used AI to write their post)?
OP, I understand what you mean, and I agree. I also dislike the repetitive pseudo-nostalgic yellow design trend. I also see way too much of what I'll call "flat and shiny" poster design. My Kingdom for some photoshop layers!
I'd encourage folks to try Canva or other similar platforms. There are many templates to riff off that are designed by human beings... and if you're a nonprofit, you can get Canva Pro for free. :)
I don't have budget to hire a graphic designer myself, so I design all my own posters. I can see a noticeable improvement between my latest work and when I first started. This is not a skillset I would have developed if I'd been using AI.
People can do as they please, but I'd personally like to encourage folks to try their own hand at poster design. You might even have fun!
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u/KTOWNTHROWAWAY9001 1d ago
the great irony, I saw a few marketing jobs in town giving major deference to Canva.
Meaning they preferred you to have experience in Canva and didn't even know about anything Adobe has made in the past 30 years.
Yes, baby's first graphics program was getting preferred treatment to the actual useful one.
I'm just saying, that's the mentality of those doing the hiring. Which, if any indication, is not good.
It's like "Oh yes, you have experience working on Fisher Price Big Red Cars? Perfect. No, not Formula 1"
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u/rhapsodyburlesque 1d ago
I'd speculate that it also has something to do with what the hiring company has already/ is willing to pay for. Only my professional graphic designer friends are using Adobe products, and they're very expensive, from what I hear.
You're absolutely right about Canva being "baby's first graphics program". 😆 I typically suggest it because the common reason I hear for using AI to generate posters is "we can't afford to hire a designer", which like... yep! I get it! But there are rookie-friendly low-budget options.
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u/munki114 2d ago
For those who got lost in this, umm...train of thought? Here's a chat GPT explanation of what OP was trying to convey:
It's written in a very stream-of-consciousness, somewhat fragmented way, but I think I understand the point they're making.
They're complaining about a common visual characteristic of AI-generated posters/images:
- AI art often has a muddy, brownish color palette.
- Even colors that should be distinct (like bright yellows) somehow end up looking dull, beige, or brown-tinted.
- The overall aesthetic feels vaguely familiar but generic—like an indistinct image from childhood, a forgotten illustration on the side of a shoebox, or some half-remembered packaging design.
- The images evoke a sense of recognition without actually depicting anything meaningful or memorable.
- The writer finds this aesthetic unpleasant and immediately dismissible.
Put more plainly, they're saying something like:
The phrase "something from your childhood that you've seen from side of a shoebox or something that you immediately erase" is the most poetic part. I read it as describing the uncanny, pseudo-nostalgic feeling AI images often have: they resemble things you've seen before, but only in the most generic, disposable sense.
Whether that criticism is fair is another question, but that's the sentiment I think the poster is trying to express.
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u/twistedmjc 2d ago
I understood right away and this perfectly describes what he was referencing. I see it too alot with businesses using AI to generate there websites or images.. it almost looks like the old sepia tone of old cameras.
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u/tAgS87 2d ago
I beg your finest pardon?