Why does all AI graphic design have the exact same style?

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Cartoony fonts, way too much text everywhere, no visual higherarchy, colored rounded boxes, why does it all have seemingly one style rather than having multiple like you see in other ai mediums?

I hate generative ai btw I was just wondering

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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
The organic meatbags seem to enjoy it.

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PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’s actually because people doing AI art aren’t artists, they have absolute no artistic vision and most probably lack basic art knowledge, and the very reason they are doing AI art is because they are mediocre. Their prompts are “give me [actor] doing [action] in [location]” and that’s it, they don’t talk about style influence, color palette, scene composition, etc etc, so it all comes out the same.

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- Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This. That’s like vibe coding. Vibe arting get you slop as well.
  
  Now, give an AI to a good coder, and you don’t get slop code. Same with artists
  
  Do you still get AI stuff? Yes, but a whole better result.
  
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  - Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Except good artists and coders enjoy the creation process, so they won’t use it like that.
    
    I need to change every instance of this function to another? Sure, let an LLM do it, that’s tedious to do and easy to verify. Implement a new system? Hell no, that’s interesting to do and hard to verify. I imagine artists have similar feelings on the matter, but I don’t know what’s a tedious task that’s easy to verify for an artist.
    
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  - discow@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes indeed, I work in printing and use AI regularly. But I use it as a tool to enhance things, not to start something from scratch. Square picture needs to be A4? I let it generate the extra space around. Foot cut off on the bottom? AI adds it (after a couple of attempts sometimes). Or upsaling can also do miracles nowadays. But for text you really can’t use it. If there is text generated, I generate background over the text, and later add proper text in indesign.
    
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- Pratai@piefed.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Came here to say exactly this. Well put.
  
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hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s the most statistically average art.

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- mrmaplebar@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It's literally that.
  
  Trained on everything, biased towards middle-of-the-road, AI is going to produce the most generic "art" possible, unless specifically prompted to do something else.
  
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- dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That’s what really gets me about everyone who touts AI as the future of creativity. All it does is give you what it determines to be the most likely response to your prompt. It’s never going to be clever or subversive.
  
  Even if you wade through all the slop it shits out and only go with the results closest to what you asked for, the absolute best you can hope for is predictable and mediocre. If you’re not interested in making something at least halfway decent, why bother at all?
  
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  - Fallibilist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    It’s never going to be clever or subversive.
    
    The AI doesn’t need to be clever for as long as the person writing the prompt is. It’s just a tool. It doesn’t do anything on its own. What you get out reflects what you put in.
    
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- A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  ClipArt
  
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Fallibilist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It doesn’t - you only notice the low-effort ones that default to the generic style where as the rest fly under your radar and go undetected. It’s called a toupee fallacy: “All toupees look fake, I’ve never seen one that didn’t”

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- SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Is that like inverse survivor bias?
  
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  - meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It’s like confirmation bias which I think survivor bias is a type of.
    
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- starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  So is it still possible to give a style prompt? I haven’t dabbled with it in ages. When it started out, you’d tell it you wanted, say, the style of Rembrandt but with a dash of horror or something. Can you still do that?
  
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  - cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    it’s a language model. You can give it any kind of prompt you want. How effectively it interprets those instructions is a separate discussion, but in general newer models expand on those sort of capabilities, they don’t strip them out.
    
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Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
They’re trained on the same information

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- running_system@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Good creative and artistic design obviously wasn’t part of it, though.
  
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heartSagan5@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
“AI ain’t got style.” Lol

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fluffy_cloud@piefed.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think it’s the default style. The style formed when you merge all styles on earth. And most people don’t care enough/feel confident enough/know enough to tell the AI to do it different.

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NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Because that’s the data average. LLMs don’t think, they just algorithmicly process data. It is literally impossfor them create, let alone create something original.

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usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
This was for general diffusion model outputs a few years ago, but a lot of the speculation of why the outputs are similar likely hold here

There are also only so many good data sets available for people to use to build image models, Phillip Isola, a professor at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, told me, meaning the models might overlap in what they’re trained on. (One popular one, CelebA, features 200,000 labeled photos of celebrities. Another, LAION 5B, is an open-source option featuring 5.8 billion pairs of photos and text.)

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Five years ago, he explained, image generators tended to create really blurry outputs. Researchers realized that it was the result of a mathematical fluke; the models were essentially averaging all the images they were trained on. Averaging, it turns out, “looks like blur.” It’s possible that, today, something similarly technical is happening with this generation of image models that leads them to plop out the same kind of dramatic, highly stylized imagery—but researchers haven’t quite figured it out yet. Additionally, “most models have an ‘aesthetic’ filter on both the input and output that reject images that don’t meet a certain aesthetic criteria,” Hany Farid, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information, told me over email. “This type of filtering on the input and output is almost certainly a big part of why AI-generated images all have a certain ethereal quality

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The third theory revolves around the humans who use these tools. Some of these sophisticated models [this is not as sophisticated as the author is implying] incorporate human feedback; they learn as they go. This could be by taking in a signal, such as which photos are downloaded. Others, Isola explained, have trainers manually rate which photos they like and which ones they don’t. Perhaps this feedback is making its way into the model

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This could be intentional: If such imagery has a market, maybe companies would begin to converge around it. Or it could be unintentional; companies do lots of manual work in their models to combat bias, for example, and various tweaks favoring one kind of imagery over another could inadvertently result in a particular look

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- Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That’s interesting. I always thought it was a conscious choice by model trainers.
  
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scallisto@retrofed.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I would imagine that it’s the easiest for the model to produce. Bold colours, clear and distinct shapes, that sort.

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- Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I would assume, they even explicitly tell the model to use this default style, if the user doesn’t specify anything else, because it is so easy to generate.
  
  At least, this started early last year and there were fairly distinctive points when each chatbot’s outputs started looking all the same.
  
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NotAnOtter@lemmus.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
They all trained on the same info. For generative models, “more data is better” is pretty much a global truth. And when you have a few dozen providers all consuming as much data as possible, they eventually all process all the available data with the same algorithm and all land on roughly the same product.

And that’s before you consider that in practice, people are only generating assets from a couple providers. So it’s literally the same product, not just two similar products.

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mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t know where y’all seeing all this ai adverts. Social media?

But I hardly see any of it.

Sometimes on a YouTube ad… By sheer happenstance.

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- Interstellar_1@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I see it primarily in real life actually, many paper flyers and sandwich boards have a clearly ai generated style, and if I go to a farmer’s market in the city at least 20% of the graphics are AI.
  
  These are more neat than the ones I see often, but if you want examples: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/graphic_design/comments/1w1xve1/my_neighborhood_has_been_taken_over_by_chatgpt/
  
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  - mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I see what you’re saying thank you for the examples that definitely clears up a lot.
    
    I guess I just kind of tune these out in public but you’re absolutely right they do have a very similar styling.
    
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- Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  IDK, I started blocking ads on every platform 20 years ago and haven’t looked back. Nothing gets through in any app on every device I own (PC, phone, watch, TV, etc.). I will go out of my way to make sure that an ad can never get to my eyeballs using every available tool at my disposal: browser extensions, alternative DNS servers, patched apks—you get the idea.
  
  I can’t wait until we have AR glasses that can adblock billboards and other ads in public too. We’re less than 5 years away from that tech being mainstream IMO.
  
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Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You are asking: “why are all AI users the same kind of stupid and want it this way - at least all the ones that I am watching”

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A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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- starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  They’re all slightly piss yellow with people who all look the same.
  
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