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I wanted a 2000s/ASCII-era vibe sign to put up when I have extra bread to give away, and my wife came through in spades
I like it a lot, gonna tile it onto four pages and call it a day
Edit: I completed it with a small handwritten note at the bottom:
It’s bread, your comment is slop.
God forbid people advertise with an actual photo of their product
Think how awkward the room would be if you got a gift at a party and in front of everyone, holding up your new loaf of bread, you say, “it’s better than AI slop!!”
People would just look at you… confused about the connection. Yes, breAd has an ‘A’ in it.
The post isn't about the bread though, it's about the sign, made with love by a real person. Rarer and rarer these days
Yes and the proper response is “nice sign” not “let me ignore your effort and remind everyone that AI permeates everything including a topic trying very hard to avoid AI”
I’m saying some people are so obsessed with AI that they have literally absorbed it into their personalities, and that is as annoying or worse than just scrolling past slop like advertisements.
"ignore your effort"? It's the opposite, it's praise for putting in the effort when that's more optional than ever, that's the whole thing.
No, if it was praise for the effort it would be literally praising the effort.
If a child walks up to you with a finger painting and says, “look at what I painted,” your don’t say “it’s better that AI slop”
You’re a monster who has been poisoned by AI to be the thing you hate, constantly thinking about AI slop.
I'm a monster? Dog, take a nap or find yourself some fresh sourdough or something, you're taking this way too seriously
Dog? Odd choice of insult. Very geo-specific. I’d say you are the one taking this too seriously… because I want to talk about a bread, and sign making… not AI slop, which permeates everything… because of humans.
I call everybody dog, dog✌️
You blew it. 🤡
The context is very salient because so many people think that asking AI to make a sign is better than doing something handmade.
The comment saying, hey everybody, look at this, this is better than those AI posters, is designed to counteract this notion.
I see your point and agree. Celebrate the presence of good, rather than the absence of bad
Yes. I love your sign. The wavy text brings particular joy to me as I have many good memories of making ridiculous text effects.
Edited bc i didn't mean to put an unrelated group chat out in the open
Omg that’s too much. I love it. I’d take the bread with that sign, and I’m a “no food from coworkers” type of person.
Now you just need a dot matrix and that ribbon paper with the delicious rippy edges so you can make an entire banner for bread day.
Please go home and take your medication
I wish old accounts could get punished for breaking rules.
Is having a stick up your ass against the rules?
I thought this was America
Hah. Well, suggesting mental illness for my comments in this thread does have the waft of “not civil” which is rule 5.
Civility online is very subjective.
Either way, this whole thread full of pedantry, strong opinions, and snippiness is exactly what reddit lost and a reason i came here
It's like a dysfunctional family, and I'm here for it
You're missing the point. The original comment was about the sign, not the bread.
Yes and the proper response is “nice sign” not “let me ignore your effort and remind everyone that AI permeates everything including a topic trying very hard to avoid AI”
I’m saying some people are so obsessed with AI that they have literally absorbed it into their personalities, and that is as annoying or worse than just scrolling past slop like advertisements.
You're just seeing one comment out of a person's day, how do you know someone pointing that out spends even five minutes a day thinking about AI? And anyway, many people come to social media and especially the fediverse with the intention of discussion the primary issues of our time, one of them being AI, and a style using wordart like this image probably became a highly upvoted post at least in part because of people being sick of AI flyers.
People "obsessed with AI" usually are concerned with the greater issues related to it, like the fascist tech-corpos taking over our government and economic systems, which is a hard thing to not agitate against when you are aware of what's going on.
I can see comment history.
Fair enough, I do agree there are enough things going on that you shouldn't hyperfocus on AI. It's hard to avoid though, it's prevalent and irritating.
If i may, my thinking with the "still better than AI" comment/mentality is that it makes sense to say that when the human made thing is bad.
Like, if a person makes something that's shit, it's still better than AI. But in this case, what the human made was SPECTACULAR, so in my mind saying it's still better than AI doesn't make sense because that's self-evident
True it is a beautiful creation! I had a thought about AI when I saw it, but more like "see, that's gorgeous, clearly digitally handmade, simple and informative and no AI needed!!" Like it just illustrates how much better a flyer could be and how unnecessary relying on AI image generation is. Where I'm at I see AI used all the time for posters and it gives me a gross feeling.
There’s a charm in word art that doesn’t come from prompts and random number generators.