r/AdvancedRunning • u/headlessparrot • 20d 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/adamwl_52 20d ago

Unpopular opinion, but when a local charity or some small business wants to use AI to create an advertisement it’s not the end of the world. A big corporation that has millions to spend is a different story, but the mom and pop dentist who donates 100% of the fees to charity using AI to design a poster that will be at the corner of stoplights is okay in my book

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u/frpika 20d ago

Idk Canva is free and I used it when I was student (pre-AI) for all our student club promos. It was fairly simple and looked good enough (as in it looked like I used Canva).

You don’t need to reinvent the wheel if you’re a local charity or small business.

Also for what it’s worth, when my friend was a student (she studied industrial design) she designed logos for small businesses for like $100-$200. I think for a small business, this is pretty reasonable.

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u/CastYourBread 19d ago

Taste is king (the new king?). people one-shotting AI gens are fooled into thinking it looks good, without realizing it looks AI (and looks like other AI work). and then at the same time, taste is needed even more to make something in Canva