AI generated art is the new "cousin who knows Photoshop".
This is fine, and mostly benign.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
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I'mma be honest: I compared the two logos before reading anything, and absolutely loved the one on the left. It made me instantly want to learn more about the company. The one on the right just looks like a low effort depiction of the inside of a house, and I lost interest in what it was offering before I even got to the company name. I clicked in the post to put in my 2 pence, then read the whole image. Yeah... AI sucks.
The one on the left is superior for a massive number of reasons.
Simple and easy to print, make copies of documents without becoming illegible, and other paperwork related reasons.
Easy to recognize at a glance. The one on the right is really hard to make out at a small size. Just a bland beige blob.
There is a reason most familiar logos are monochrome or only a few colors, and simplicity is one of them. The one on the right looks like overly bust clipart.
The one on the left is a couch inside a house with a lamp, all of which make sense together. The plants overlap the wall and there is a chandelier over the couch on the right one. Who puts a chandalier over a couch?
Ugh, I know it is obviously awful but I had to get it out.
so sayeth artist_mariana lmao
She’s an artist the way I’m a chef when I go to a restaurant and order food.
It's probably a bot for marketing the platform
Lol was looking for this comment
What is up with the weird soft look that so many AI images have?
It’s probably trained on a fuckton of Thomas Kinkade paintings, just statistically, since his output was so huge. He also had that kind of lighting going on, so it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s just baked into AI image generation now.
Interesting. Never heard of him, but immediately recognized the style
There’s a good couple of episodes from Behind the Bastards about him, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Limitations of AI. That can't do it any other way. That's one of the ways to spot them.
It's spontaneously pleasant to see for most people, and I believe that's why it was favoured in the training process of the various image generators.
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Sometimes I think the AI bubble is about people who don't understand computers being put in a kind of purgatory where they have to work out why everything is wrong and bad.
Spoken like someone who has no clue about graphic design
That thing just screams AI slop.
I hate that some real people actually think like this and don't see the problems here.
The Dunning-Kruger tool.
Mariana Lopez should have at least said which freelancer she got the sample from. What an insult to their work.
I do prefer the AI font choice unfortunately
when it somehow produces coherent letters, the fonts to be an average of what we are used to seeing on every similar logo so they generally have the right feel.
I'm not a huge fan of the current ai crap but i would like if it was possible to output typable fonts in standard formats. for logos I would want it to be able to produce editable vector graphics but the only attempt at that I've seen made what should be a solid single shape as a million some odd blobs jigsawed together, so editing manually would require redrawing all of it. currently I'd be better off following some youtube tutorials for how to use inkscape or something.
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I know, that's not the point of this post, but does anybody else miss, when logos had more than 2 colours? I see it as a sign of enshitification. Every company now has a monochrome logo made of simple shapes, so it's cheaper to print on t shirts and easier to spot on a phone screen.
Right? I miss fun logos. I get everyone wants to shit on ai but minimalist logos are booooooring