Are small theaters starting to do everything with AI now?
Earlier this year I told my local community theater I wouldn't run any shows next year that had AI front and center in the promotion / production, they just recently released the posters for next year's shows and all but 1 was AI (and they have since redone that poster and I am pretty sure it is AI now). Additionally most of the images they use as prop photos are AI generated. I've been told that as a small theater they don't have the time/money to use real posters.
I'm going to look for other theaters or maybe just move do doing live music. I've only done theater with this theater so I have zero perspective on how other theaters do their promotion, is this just some theaters or will I have a hard time finding a place I feel comfortable with (that doesn't do everything with AI?) Even flyers are AI generated, they made a flyer for the memorial of the founder of the theater and the image and QR code were obviously AI generated (QR didn't work and had grey off-grid pixels)
The executive director told me she'd try to ensure the posters for the kids musicals are real since I'm one of the only people there that can handle those mic counts, but I don't plan on staying much longer.
They have been using AI for posters and such since AI was able to generate 'convincing' posters, its not exactly new, but I don't want to associate myself with that slop anymore (and the executive director has claimed they have a no-AI policy, so it isn't a tough ask). They aren't even checking the posters before they publish them, in one of the posters all the people's hands are dildos (I checked with the play director and marketing director and it very much was not intentional, and has not been fixed so far)