Slop consumers be like "AI democratizes creativity" and then all use the same design for everything

You hate Corporate Memphis eh?

ah but what if AI slop Corporate Memphis??

actually that mostly looks accurate lmao except the leaf growing out of the window sill, and the space between blue shirt's armpit area should probably be white

I've been commenting "ai slop" on just about every AI ad I get which has led to some of the advertisers looking at my account/stories and commenting on my posts

But guess what? It's not stopping me!

I've thought a lot about why "corporate Memphis" sucks so much. I think it's because it comes across as incredibly ingenuine. It communicates a Utopian world free of race and gender gaps, which is demonstrably not the case in reality. In a way, the AI art is more genuine. "We don't give a fuck, neither do you, buy our stuff". I feel it speaks to an overall nihilism with the world. I think it's a part of the disillusionment with the "liberal elite" that we find on the left (and honestly, probably the right too). Corporate Memphis is Nancy Pelosi. AI art is JD Vance. The fact we're yearning for the former shows how terrible the latter really is.

TIL that art style is called Corporate Memphis.

I can't tell you how often I've been walking around looking for a place to eat and I see all these AI generated slop menus with AI generated food photos. I just walk away from those places. I can almost forgive the AI generated format for the menu, almost. But I can't forgive the food photos

I hope people are starting to realize why software engineers don't handle UX design and why your standard issue middle aged person was not limited by their lack of graphics design skill to create an ad.

I cannot muster sufficient hubris to say it can't get worse than AI slop, yet for the sake for whatever remains of my sanity I refuse to believe it can, let alone attempt to imagine what such an atrocity against aesthetics would look like.

The worst future: AI art continues to improve until it actually is indistinguishable from human art for 99% of the population. But the cost in turn rises. It costs maybe a quarter of what a human artist would need to charge for the same work. Still cheap enough to mostly put human artists out of business, but still by no means cheap or affordable. The AI companies drive the real artists out of their fields, and then raise the prices as high as they can without allowing a new crop of commercial artists to spring up.

That's why they say "hell is a bottomless pit".

No matter how bad it gets, things can ALWAYS get worse.

TIL that corporate blandness had a name.

I think it had it's place as inoffensive background filler but obviously was overdone.

AI slop is usually so out of place everywhere and it's quickly gone straight to abused.

We heard your feedback, and decided to fulfill your request and use AI-slopped corporate memphis

You're welcome

Reject Corporate Memphis, embrace Frutiger Aero

This aesthetic is like the new Comic Sans, except infinitely less endearing

FYI business owners. You give me slop advertising I will give you no money or time.

The ai slop is closer to comic sans clipart slop and easier to block out than tiny head deformed monstrosities.

I hate corporate memphis so fucking much that I'd reverse this meme.

Honestly, I hate that corporate art style so much that I still like ai slop better