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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

I appreciate that some venues, like the Stork Club in Oakland, are getting ahead of this gen-AI trend by requiring all fliers be human made. "We don't care if it's a screenshot of the Notes app with the show info or a picture of a hand with band names written in Sharpie." (source https://www.instagram.com/p/DOZIJgoEq%5F0/?img%5Findex=1)
I like this energy and hope more venues adopt similar policies.

Image from Stork Club's Instagram that says "No more A.I. flyers"
"Over the last few months we've started getting AI generated flyers for our shows from various sources like indie labels, party promoters, and everyone in between. And we are seeing other venues post them as well. It's giving us the ick. As an independent alt venue, we feel the poster art for a show has always been an essential part of the creative process of live shows. It's like the album cover of the night. Many graphic artists have cut their professional chops by crating poster art for live music and we wanna keep supporting that by not undercutting artists just to save a few bucks on the production end. Also it’s not very punk AI has it's place in the world, like creating meme slop that makes you stupid and rendering your career irrelevant, or robo-calling your mom once a week and chatting with her in your voice. All important tools brought to us by the scrappy altruistic billionaire overlords that merely want us to live in a future of abundance"
“So starting today, we will be requiring all flyers for our show be made by a human. We don't care if it's a screenshot of the notes app with the show info, or if it's just a picture of a hand with band names written in Sharpie. As long as it's not AI slop being passed off as genuine creation. Partnering with local graphic artists, we have curated a roster for wayward promoters to choose from that we will send to anyone that can't provide us with proof and credit for any art used to market shows. Thanks to Dracula's flute, Janelle Blarg, Pemex, Gats, WhatsUpAlbert, Roy G Biv, Jessie California, Buster Cagle. For agreeing to hop on board and give us homie prices to help stem this tide. And if you are a graphic artist interested in being added to our in house anti-AI roster, you can send your CV to TheeStorkClub@gmail.com"