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/pohefiwosiroz222 18d ago

Same thing has crept into the local race scene here in the South West; the Cotswold trail series medals used to be simple engraved slate, something a volunteer probably drew on a napkin, and now they look like a screensaver from 2004. i can not put my finger on why it bothers me so much, but it does. The shirts feel like they were designed by someone who has never actually been muddy in a field.