Healdsburg businesses: please stop making AI slop for promo
Everywhere I turn I see more and more local businesses posting sloppy AI graphics to promote events, etc. This is unnecessary, irresponsible, and tasteless.
We are barely out of a major drought. So there is really no excuse for anyone vaguely aware and who claims to care about the environment (or the future) to casually burn through water to make fake pictures of the Plaza or a winery populated by uncanny humanoid figures with shimmery limbs.
This is especially egregious when done by local arts orgs meant to promote creativity (cough, True West Film Center). But it is really just depressing to see these flattened, monotonous, and frankly quite ugly images everywhere. Yes, budgets are shrinking and pressure is high, but this is not the answer.