29/08/2026
I’m seeing more posters and graphics created by artists to promote their workshops or exhibitions which have clearly been made using AI.
They are easy to spot these days; text and graphics carefully dotted around the image with perfectly polished illustrations or imagery. Often they have a retro or stereotypical hand-made feel.
Actual artists and creative people, with their own human talents and capabilities, producing AI slop to promote their human talents and capabilities.
Can they not see the irony and deep conflict of interest?
I can tell I’m affected by this because my heart is racing while I type this. Honestly, I’m gobsmacked that art societies, art educators, artists and designers are so blatantly using AI.
AI produces a polished, homogenised version of other people’s work. Stolen and scraped. And pretty soon, it will be regurgitating its own creative slop to produce more slop.
Dear amazing creative,
Please don’t use AI to create posters and graphics to promote your beautiful, thought-provoking, unique, hand-made work or events.
Create your own graphics using your own work. There are still so many tools you can use to make your posters or promo graphics (Canva being one of them) we managed pretty well before ChatGPT came along.
Don’t succumb to the novelty of AI to produce your graphics. It’s the very antithesis of what being a creative is about. You are better than a machine. We trust you more than a machine.
The message is in the medium. If the medium you’re using to promote your work is AI, then the message is instantly diminished and distrusted.
I’m so sad to see artists using AI to spew out boring, robot-created graphics that all look the same.
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