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Those examples are instantly recognizable as slop to me
It doesn't count if you were told first.
Need to try again in double blind AB testing.
That's asking which one someone likes more, not which they think is AI. It's a subtle but important distinction. For me it was a tossup. I picked the AI 3 to 2.
In reality all the passages felt like over-written attempts to say something simple, as poetical as possible. I've never really liked that style of writing. I try to be much more direct.
But generally, yah. That's what I mean. You need that kind of test to know if you can tell something is AI or not.
yeah, I edited the comment saying something similar, but maybe the edit didn't federate to your server in time to be seen. I'd rather they just ask me to identify which is which, because I don't really know which I prefer really as I agree in not liking that prosey poetic sort of style - overwritten as you put it. and I identified 3/5 AI texts but sometimes preferred them to the human text. So they're not great choices of examples really.
OK. What are the clues?
Mostly the art and the fonts if I had to guess? It was more of an uncanny valley visceral reaction though.
I've been out of the design game for six years at this point. Given that I did broadsheet design and wince at most everything for both art and typographical choices, it wasn't really the sort of thing that stood out to me. There is a lot of bad design being happily gobbled up ... hell, I didn't look at rave flyers in the '90s and think "this is great design," but rather "how the hell did they have the budget for C2S in CMYK with spot fluorescent and a top coat?"
I didn’t say it was bad, per-say, I don’t know enough about design to judge that, it just immediately triggered the “this is ai” bell in my head when I looked at it.
Your bell was primed because they told you it was AI in advance. That why mentioned AB testing. If you saw these, side by side with other human made posters and flyers, how reliable would your bell be then? We don't know.
Would it have if you'd not been told it was ahead of time, though?
I think so based on how much it stuck out at me but I can’t know for sure obviously