It’s not easy to own a small business. Sometimes they just have to try whatever fits within the budget.
yes, you’re the only one. not a single soul has ever complained about AI before you did with this post, OP.
Go ahead and keep your money as you see fit. The vast majority of people do not donate to Lemmy or their instance.
I live in a rural town and 100% this is true. Gas stations, grocery stores, restaurants, they all use AI for everything.
Unfortunately the percentage of average people who are bothered this is pretty low.
Most people just view it as a cost-saving measure, which small businesses tend to do.
Went to a festival recently, and nearly all pictures of food were AI, but what got me were the artists with AI signs.
You are not alone. Its a surefire way of telling me they do not give a shit about their business. Its honestly nice that AI makes it easier to spot ;)
Unless it’s a shop that sells advertising posters I would not mind.
Damn I’m missing that “ugly” stuff made in Paint and typed in Comic Sans more and more every day.
I did let a place I go semi regularly know that I choose not to eat dessert recently because their dessert menu had all AI images. The next time I was there the specials were just text (like their standard menu)
I recently saw a local store with “we have the best fruit” handwritten on a piece of paper. I don’t think the alternative of AI poster is a poster designed by a local artist for them. It’s AI poster or no poster at all. You may prefer no poster but I’m not bothered by AI in such cases.
It’s AI poster or no poster at all. You may prefer no poster
I’m also on team ‘no poster’.
I’m far more likely to buy fruit from that place with a handwritten sign on a piece of paper than I am from someplace with a shitty AI slop picture of what a robot thinks fruit looks like. If you’re going to have pictures of your product, it had better be actual pictures of the product I’m actually buying. I don’t want to see some AI idealized picture of it – I want to see what it actually looks like. And, no, you don’t need to hire a local artist for that. You’ve got product to sell? You’ve got a phone in your pocket? Take a fucking photo of it. Put that photo on your poster. Done. No money spent on artists.
I will never understand thr people that think artists are going to be paid by small businesses thst are using AI, it seems as idiotic as the antipiracy laws that think everyone thst pirates is a lost sale
Yup, I genuinely refuse to support businesses actively using AI.
You’re going to be increasingly bothered by everything going forward. Best to just let it go
I was really disappointed. Since I’m probably losing my job, I basically don’t go anywhere any more, but went out for wife’s birthday. The place we went started selling pizza and, from a distance, the small poster looked fine. I got closer and it was disgustingly unnatural (and also had “eastablished 1859” (I forget the exact date, but mid-19th-century) for the place that was like 6 years old). We decided to have dinner elsewhere.
Instant walkout. If they’ve already started a dialogue, I (respectfully) let them know why I’m not buying—otherwise I don’t bother. I’d literally rather see a shitty MS Paint drawing than an AI generated picture.
Are you using ai to write this??
Edit: asking because of the emdash but I respect that the op is not an AI. I just had to ask 🤣
I’m using i to write this.
FN A BROTHER
Just checking because of the emdash 🤣
Dude… alt-gr+dash, or cmd+dash or alt+dash depending on your flavor of OS/keyboard layout. The whole em-dash = ai is so annoying to me cause I’ve been using em-dashes way before LLMs came to spoil the fun.
forreal, it’s one of my favorite ways to break up a sentence. it’s also stupid to accuse of Ai for one piece of grammar, when there’s typically multiple tells to pay attention to when it comes to Ai.
let’s not forget that llms were originally trained on human-made text too. we are the ones who made the patterns first. llms simply regurgitate it
That’s why I ask! I respect that real people use it. It’s a valid punctuation
I’m on an iPhone, which autocorrects two dashes (- -) to an emdash.
My bad! I learned something today
No wtf?
