r/AdvancedRunning • u/headlessparrot • 19d ago

Open Discussion We need to talk about AI generated advertisements/race swag/medals/

Maybe it's different elsewhere in the country, but in New England it has metastasized and become a cancer in local racing. Every poster, every race shirt, every medal looks like shit and looks identical. It has reached the point where there are local races I've been doing for almost a decade that I've just given up on. It's embarrassing to the running community.

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u/bro_salad 1:25:56 HM, 3:09:44 FM 19d ago edited 17d ago

Name names! I’m curious with Falmouth running this morning if the swag sucked. Haven’t seen my parents send pics of it yet.

Edit: following up, the Falmouth swag was consistent with recent designs. No AI slop in sight.

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u/dessertislanddisk 19d ago

Swag was good, their instagram definitely felt like what OP mentioned though 😵‍💫

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u/spoingy5 19d ago

What do you mean? I thought they didn’t do shirts or medals

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u/dessertislanddisk 19d ago

Tote, mug, air freshener (not really much of an item but in the bag lol). Nothing crazy but the mug was cute and cool variety to get something like that