Paul Aus 🇦🇺 UK 🇬🇧 IRL 🇮🇪 :
I work in the creative industry, seasoned graphic designer, and the slop produced by AI is utterly terrible. It can’t design at all. It can do ‘eye candy’, but certainly not anything I’d consider serious design. I see FB ads with font so small you need a magnifying glass, or posters with 8 confusing calls to action, zero hierarchy, 7 fonts, and a severe lack of contrast, considered layout or focus on the message itself. AI copies or produces slop in the hands of a non professional. You need design expertise to produce good design. With the advent of AI I’m busier than ever. I’m getting so much AI slop that hasn’t worked to re-do properly. I use AI myself, but not for design work - I use it for all the boring admin stuff like organising an illustrator file with 120 layers I’ve created into categories, or building scripts for indesign or illustration to run routine automations that uses to take much longer to do within the software, or building CRM automations or json files as I do a lot of web work and internet marketing for my clients . As a seasoned designer, there’s no way I’d accept AI slop or use AI for any form of finished design work! A lot of very small business is using it a lot more lately, but they’re not my target market and never have been. I’d be more impressed if they had a go and put their own time with their own photography into it via canva because then it would have their own personality and style which is ultimately the very first step in business branding.
2026-10-18 21:04:19