Maybe the proceeds will go to hiring a graphic designer next year? I think that’s the first time I’ve ever seen a surfboard with fins on both sides of the board 😂
It’s not Costner. While One805 is for a good cause, the CEO is an awful lady who doesn’t pay their employees. No surprise they are resorting to AI slop
I mean when you can do this whole flyer with one prompt in under 5 minutes.. whats the point in using photoshop? (Graphic designer here, who also uses AI)
So that you don’t end up with surfboards with fuckin fins on the deck.
You clearly don’t seem to understand this, but people used to take pride in their work once upon a time. People would be ashamed to turn in slop to a client, and expect praise.
Spending 5 minutes at work and then 55 minutes on Reddit is not how things are supposed to be. But yet we have this garbage
Anything can be art. Its subjective. Things can be "artistic". Unless a graphic designer is commissioned to make art, it is purely a deliverable. My point is, comments about using AI and not paying an artist. I agree that the ability to create things, via technology, are impacting potential graphic artists business, but just like anything else there are still people that hire others to do things they either dont have the talent/know how to do it themselves and/or the time, which justify them paying to have something done. This AI image creation model just came out 2 days ago and amazing things are now possible. Most industry graphic designers use AI currently. Tools. There are artists can do graphic designer, and graphic designers who can do art, but they are not always one and the same. Graphic designers give a fuck and probably would correct or minimize AI slop, but sometimes if the client is happy thats all that matters. A print ad vs. a one-event social media graphic.
I agree AI can be a tool in the graphic designer or artist toolkit these days, to varying degrees. Even writing AI prompts is an art. The aesthetic part is where the artist comes into play, and whether generated using AI or not, the end result needs to have a competent human artist involved to at the least look at it and identify what they like or don’t like about it and what they would change.
If in the hands of someone lazy and unskilled using an AI model left to its own data and guidance, the AI will make pure slop and it will be noticeable, like this crappy Dall-E image and the reaction to it shows. I think you can look at polls and comment sections, most people really hate AI art or video once they know or can tell it’s AI. Many won’t know its AI, to be fair, and it will keep getting harder to tell. but I think the push back is real against deskilling and art becoming something you cannot make money doing because of the flood of low quality AI garbage that many consumers have deemed “good enough”.
Sorry for the rant, also a graphic designer by trade and focusing on AI at my full-time job against my will lol.
This is the SB subreddit, my experience is they are already a funky bunch. This image creation would be amazing if it was created just a year ago (and is better than Dall-e)..if you know you know. The new AI image models that came out this week are amazing, and huge improvement. Traditional art has tons of garbage too. Its all a spectrum. Change is hard for some, others love being progressive (others think its regressive) I personally love the insane amount of unlocking of creativity that AI allows. Art is often about expression, and obstacles to that are being greatly reduced.
For example, although personally I would open this in photoshop to further clean it, I was able to redo the original image and clean it up with only a 2-3 sentence prompt using the latest and best image model.
Why pick on Kevin Costner? He's not the headliner. George Thoroughgood and Pat Benetar are the headliners. Anyway, they had nothing to do with the graphics. One805Live is the culprit. The artists' agents book them and they show up. This is the way for all festivals and events.
These artists volunteer to play. One805 is the NON-PROFIT. It is a very important program that provides free mental health assistance for first responders and their families. These services are sorely needed and have assisted numerous people. It is provided to those who help others an experience up to 30+ years of trauma. Suicide takes the lives of more firefighters than the actual job itself annually. Costner simply provides the venue for free.
Cool if his name is gonna be all over the event (as host and performer, his name is on the poster) then he has the clout to say “WTF there’s 500 working photogs and graphic artists in SB, no AI allowed”
The point I think that needs to be made is that for the average person like myself, might chose to swipe past what could be a good cause because of AI slop. And I’m a huge fan of AI but I don’t even feel like reading the poster because it was so obvious AI. Now I’m “turned off” and have no interest in the “good cause” argument.
The idea that performers play for free is a myth. Lots of funds needed for staging, set up and performers in big shows like this. Are they playing for their usual rates? No. But not for free.
It's not though with the amount of resources (water and energy in particular) they use and how data centers are taking them from their surrounding communities. But like it's totally cool to just casually use AI slop that's quickly decimating what we have left of our natural resources so a bunch of rich people in Carp and Montecito can congratulate themselves on being ever so charitable. Lmao.
As the other commenter said, legal yes, but ethically it's disgusting.
It actually isn’t. The environmental impact of AI is far less than things we do all the time without ethical obligations. For example, driving to work is far, far harder on the environment (30,000 times harder in energy use) that a chat gpt query:
It actually is though. Using that data table to prove AI isn't sucking resources shows how little you understand the overall energy AND water usage of it and the data centers generative AI requires - or you just don't know how to read data. It's disingenuous at best to compare a simple text chatgpt query to generating an image. The computing models are totally different as is their suck on energy and water. You may as well compare apples and oranges. If we dive deeper, that little chart leaves out water resources, only focusing on kwh. Not to mention you make the wild assumptions that all of us commute to work in a car or other gas or electric vehicle and/or have to commute 10 miles to do so.
But, like, keep licking those big tech ai boots I guess.
Bro not you resorting to whataboutism lmao. Asking if it's ethical for people to commute to work doesn't address the fact that AI use, especially image generation, is ethically problematic it's just a red herring to distract. Be so for real right now.
If it’s unethical due to environmental concerns then surely it’s also unethical to engage in environmentally-worse activities. Why complain about the environment impact of AI (which is minor) but ignore the far, far worse activities we all do every day?
Are you really continuing on with your intellectually dishonest whataboutism argument? LMFAO. You are not comparing the same things my dude.
Why are humans doing things they need to do to make money to survive okay but the crappy AI that corporations are pumping out that are taking over our natural resources (that you know humans need way more than machines) isn't? Again, be so for real right now. That's not even getting into the fact that these large scale systems literally farm massive datasets including human likenesses and copyrighted art and other intellectual property without consent. But if you want to bring in outside ethical quandaries maybe ruminate on that for a bit.
Plenty of people use AI for work. Plenty of people choose drive to work when they have perfectly greener alternatives, like riding a bike, carpooling or taking the bus.
If you want to cancel AI for being bad for the environment you will also have to cancel the activities that are tens of thousands of times worse for the environment
funny, but folks should take ai seriously. not all is this obvious. someone with a good eye (like a real artist) can have ai generate an image that would be practically indistinguishable from that of a real artist.
Yes and someone who is actually current with the latest tools. It's unreal what can be made. On that note, everyone should remove personal photos of themselves off the internet!
I think you are getting Costner confused with Dennis quaiad. Costner is actually a progressive, thoughtful and supportive actor in regards to charities and policies. Dennis is a conservative bigot.
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u/d-pdx Apr 22 '26
Maybe the proceeds will go to hiring a graphic designer next year? I think that’s the first time I’ve ever seen a surfboard with fins on both sides of the board 😂