AI Has Come for Serif Fonts

The AI Aesthetic

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

"AI" is bad UX

teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

Brands Adopt ‘No AI’ Disclaimers to Stand Out Amid the Slop

Marketers move to get ahead of growing consumer skepticism by labeling content that doesn’t use AI.

I pulled ~90,000 Reddit posts about what makes writing "sound like AI" to determine the biggest AI-slop giveaways (Part 2)

674 votes, 228 comments. The majority of people can instantly tell when writing is generated by AI. For those who don't intend to get into the weeds…

Machine god metaphors eat your brain

There are other ways of thinking about AI

Hello Local Business, Your AI Ads Are Costing You Customers

'Even if this was a genre popularised by human artists, it would still look like shit'

AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture

Generative AI deserves scientific attention. But the rush to study it is producing a feedback loop of topical and methodological convergence, flattening scientific imagination and crowding out the pluralism needed to keep research adaptive, resilient, and intellectually generative.

AI is ushering in an age of personal media

It may be AI slop, but it's my AI slop.

Really, you made this without AI? Prove it

The quest to find the ‘Fair Trade’ logo for human-made content.

The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet

The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative...

The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet

The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative...

Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI

Researchers have found that including the words "artificial intelligence" in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers.