[noindiecred]

No one is blaming the social media intern. This is a failure straight from the top of the orchestra's business office. The orchestra should have an ad budget allocated for each season, and that ad budget should include photographs of the orchestra on stage. The marketing department can definitely hire a few models - or season ticket holders! - to pose for a few hours for a shoot. Stock photography also exists. These are all solved problems and this is simply poor leadership.

[TeMPOraL]

Or, it's just a sign of things to come. Advertising is a negative-sum race to the bottom. If generative AI is cheaper than stock photos, then that's what will be used, first by few to gain momentary advantage in costs, then by everyone else to undo said advantage.

Today, it's enough of a novelty to warrant some outrage and a news article. But people will slowly get used to shitty AI art over the months to come, just as they get used to diminishing quality of everything in life. And then, nobody will be complaining about some orchestra's marketing intern playing with image generators; they'll be built into tools and done automatically anyway.

Resistance is futile.

[LNSY]

If AI images destroy advertising and marketing as industries I'm all for them. Maybe then we could have an economy based on designing, manufacturing and producing goods and services.

[TeMPOraL]

It won't, though. It'll just make it more obnoxious.

[noindiecred]

We are in agreement that the image is shitty!