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  • People were submitting ai photos last year in the local fair for physical photography. Fairs really need to re think how they do these awards like requiring the photo negative to be submitted or the actual digital art files or something.
    by dawnerd
  • Nikki Smetters got screwed. Clearly the best, imo.
    by urams
  • Totally agree, it was a simple bold design that looks to done by hand. What a low bar we are moving to.

    On a positive note, I think I found her artistic portfolio online and it's absolutely beautiful. She can rest easy knowing she has 1000x the talent of the AI slop winner.

    by superhuzza
  • Yes. A much better poster. Less busy, reads quickly. Funny and relevant. Here is her website: https://nikkismetters.com/
    by ogou
  • I just drove through rural Washington and Idaho and saw similar style flyers on all the boards at grocery stores and local businesses. Saw some AI image stickers for sale at an espresso stand in Idaho. USA 250 AI stuff all over northern Idaho. AI flags. Funny stuff. Love it
    by NDlurker
  • New storefronts with AI logos, food with AI caricatures of the chef, small taxi companies with GPT’s handiwork wrapped right over the doors…
    by Barbing
  • The other four top entries are all obvious human efforts as well. Must be annoying for them to lose to a blatant AI entry.
    by Nition
  • #2 looks a little AI to me.

    I think #3 was maybe the best entry.

    by dwaltrip
  • > The other four top entries are all obvious human efforts

    Creator of 2nd place said they used AI but then used photoshop etc for manual composition/paint over. https://www.reddit.com/r/Columbus/s/cJQqjC7C7q

    by no-name-here
  • There is a real lag between people who can leverage AI vs those who can't. People who code using AI have a real advantage of using AI in different contexts because they understand how powerful it is.

    It's very similar to when the internet got big and those who knew how to use it had a significant advantage over those who didn't. AI hasn't really diffused to mass audience yet, at least not to the point of using it to the extent coders do like making custom and even one-off apps, using CC or Codex instead of ChatGPT directly since giving it terminal access makes in 100x more powerful than the web interface.

    by theturtletalks
  • The only advantage in using generative AI is that the market is engaged in a bunch of FOMO over it, so it looks good on your resume. That's it. It makes you far worse at doing your actual job, though. I have to deal with the slop that AI enthusiasts put out at work all the time, and they are going to get fired as soon as AI isn't trendy because their work sucks ass.
    by bigstrat2003
  • It's really important to define what "people who can leverage AI" means. I've found that using AI judiciously with close human supervision provides an advantage, but using the latest models with the latest harnesses can look like it's giving you a huge advantage superficially while actually costing you more time in the long run.
    by apical_dendrite
  • What's crazy is that the winning poster looks like one-shot AI output and probably was given the mistakes in it.
    by ElProlactin
  • That stood out to me too. This could have been a lot better with just a little actual work.
    by smallerize
  • extremely noticeably so, too. A shame that the judges arent equipped to notice this sort of thing: the winning entry is pretty clearly the sort of result you get with a first naive attempt of "make a poster" with no style guidelines at all.
    by RugnirViking
  • There are two number "1" pigs, and two of them have malformed tails. Sloppy even for slop!
    by turzmo
  • It is very noticeable. Funny how it jumps right out when you've seen AI slop often enough. #5 is good and looks "real", whatever that means any more.
    by 20wenty
  • Nice the judges aren’t big users of image generators though? (Neutral they don’t read HN/Ars/etc. where they’d see examples as non-users.)
    by Barbing
  • The poster: https://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=OhioStateFair&i...

    Note the pigs are numbered 1, 2, 1. And the gondola with a floating cable and another that terminates at a tent top.

    by varenc
  • It is full of obvious AIgen artifacts

    What’s more interesting is that whomever the judges were didn’t seem to notice or care.

    It was only until afterward were they upset

    by AndrewKemendo
  • or just look at the faceless and weirdly misshapen 'people' in the crowd. Genuinely who was judging this? Also I'm pretty sure Ohio isn't 250 years old, this is just crazy
    by Barrin92
  • It looks like the sort of generic advertisement art that was common before AI.

    However, I'll say that at least it's not Corporate Memphis.

    by userbinator
  • People don't care and will continue not to care. I don't say that lamenting or with resignation. It's just a fact that we will need to accept.

    Think of all the poor typography around you. If you have a critical eye and care you can spot all sorts of bad choices: That's a preview of the future. AI-generated disposable art (posters, billboards, menus etc) that is orthogonal to the actual thing being sold will continue being the norm.

    by internet2000
  • They don't need to care, they just need to learn to tune it out, after which it becomes ineffective.

    Characteristic of this style of AI art is pseudo-detail: the artwork looks busy but when you inspect the detail, it contains no informational value. How could it, you cannot extract more detail from a prompt than what was put in.

    Contrast with a Where's Waldo picture, for example that is equally information dense but contains actually delightful jokes and variation that makes it interesting to look at.

    Good design doesn't work because people notice the clear information hierarchy. Good design works because good information hierarchy means people don't have friction trying to interpret it.

    by shalmanese
  • Enough people cared that they decided to ban AI submissions in the future. Did you even click the link before commenting?
    by breezybottom
  • It's not a fact.

    I will never accept AI generated items as creative nor valid entries in a contest.

    by VCFundedGenYer
  • People don’t care means if every poster were labeled “AI generated” with a black banner at the bottom, people wouldn’t care.

    Most can’t _recognize_ GPT & Gemini posters.

    Good point on preview of feature.

    by Barbing
  • This.100%. As people often lucky enough to work in niche sectors where users care to about the tiniest details we forget sometimes the majority of "stuff" out there exists without a soul already. Think of boring document templates, shop signs, cheap clothing designs, etc. And to he honest AI will probably raise the bar for all that stuff by a lot. Ofc like you mentioned it'll sometimes lead to misleading content (eg made up food pictures in menus), but if that happens that'll just be a byproduct of the service provider and consumers not caring enough to make that have an impact on the underlying business.
    by 0xCAP
  • Try not to tell people what they need to accept.

    Acknowledge? Admit? Recognize? Fine.

    Accept? Not bother caring about? Don't demand people do that.

    by happytoexplain
  • I quite like the 4th and 5th place posters.

    4th: https://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=OhioStateFair&i...

    5th: https://cdn.saffire.com/images.ashx?t=ig&rid=OhioStateFair&i...

    by wxw