Cheap Tricks

In brief

Professor Susan Bigelow Reynolds expressed concern regarding the use of artificial intelligence to create flyers for parish events and local businesses. Writing for Commonweal, Reynolds noted that AI-generated graphics often result in cluttered, unattractive designs characterized by excessive colors, multiple typefaces, and meaningless icons.

Reynolds observed that while people previously worried about the similarity between human and AI writing, the visual style of AI-generated flyers has become quickly recognizable. She described the aesthetic as a repetitive and banal form of graphic design that lacks the quality of hand-made or standard digital advertisements.