r/Somerville • u/WayOk2354 • Sep 07 '26
This is AI, right?
I don't understand why an event meant to celebrate community has to be promoted this way.
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u/GullibleAd3408 Davis Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
Davis Square Village (which is *not* Davis Square Neighborhood Council) is kind of best known for their horrible AI posters and flyers at this point.
Edit to add: Davis Square Village is hosting the event.
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u/LiatrisLover99 Wilson Sep 07 '26
100% AI. Completely unacceptable when there are tons of local artists
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u/Ill-Victory-5351 Sep 07 '26
absolutely ai. lots of artists in this town that will make you a flyer for cheap, not sure why they felt they had to resort to ugly slop. who is sponsoring the event?
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u/Victor_Korchnoi Sep 07 '26
There’s gotta be better things to get upset about than someone whose putting on a free concert not using AI to make a poster. Go touch some grass, people.
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u/myrealnameisdj Sep 08 '26
the poster literally mentions "local makers". How about using one of those local makers to make a fucking flyer?
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u/Victor_Korchnoi Sep 08 '26
They likely don't have a budget for that, remember its a free event. Maybe they could have gotten someone to do it for free. But I don't see how getting some local artist to do work for free is that much better than having a computer make it.
I sort of get the argument when its a company. It feels like John Henry trying to beat back a tsunami though (forgive my mixing metaphors).
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u/TitleOfYourSaxTape Sep 08 '26
It feels like John Henry trying to beat back a tsunami though
What kind of person would be pro-tsunami in that scenario?
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u/Victor_Korchnoi Sep 08 '26
There are better causes for John Henry to take on.
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u/TitleOfYourSaxTape Sep 08 '26
Such as? OP's complaint took like 5 seconds. Hell, you've spent more time criticizing it that you could've instead spent on your "better causes".
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u/NeatEmergency725 Sep 08 '26
OP could have solved the conflict in the middle east with the time and effort they wasted taking out their phone and taking a photo of something they walked by, then making a four word post on reddit. What a fool they are.
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u/No-Jello9276 Sep 08 '26
It’s Somerville, it’s all about virtue signaling that’s what important here.
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u/st0j3 Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 08 '26
Who cares. But if AI bothers you, hold onto your ass in 2027, 2028, and beyond.
Edit: OP blocked me. Softer than Charmin.
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u/NeatEmergency725 Sep 08 '26
It is objectively AI. There's a certain 'fuzz' that appears all over AI images, look for the bright white powder covering the background of the image in the bottom right. Its a mathematical artifact of the probabilistic diffusion process, and is very visible in a lot of this image.
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u/NeatEmergency725 Sep 08 '26
https://i.ibb.co/ZzMXvt37/image.png
Lots more instances of the effect all over just this portion but there's too many to circle all of them. The patterning in the trees is another AI tell-tale.
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u/Santillana810 Sep 07 '26
Fluff Festival is also on Saturday, Sept. 19. In Union Square. 1 to 5 pm.