Comment by samstress
1 day ago
Random meta comment - but have you noticed that especially Codex generated websites tend to have these 01, 02, 03 numbers as part of card layouts? (see the section just below the header). It's almost the em-dash equivalent for AI built website detection.
I have observed how all these AI generated websites look similar, but it bothers me so much less than AI generated writing does.
Like these sites simply look good, and if they had been built before AI people would have loved them.
Also this pattern of every point being presented in two phrases saying the same thing always makes me take the points less seriously.
plus the ad nauseum repetition of details that no one cares about.
I really despise these AI generated websites, they often look so samey. IDK about the numbering, but the overuse of cards everywhere, and abusing my favorite color schemes (tokyo-night, dracula style), really irritates me (esp, the color schemes, way to ruin even colors, guys).
It makes me dislike whatever they're trying to "sell" (literally or metaphorically). I wish people who wanted to be "creative" would you know... be creative, not just "push button, machine go brrr" which is what half this stuff spits out. Template, generic, no individuality. Hyper "professional" looking (but just "cool" enough to not be completely corporate).
On the other hand some of these look better and are more responsive than older sites that were definitely fuglier, klunky and less responsive. It feels like there's a middle ground, which I think is where good designer comes into play.
I don't think that's unique to AI --- many sites always had the same bland style, especially corporate ones, and I remember all the complaints about bootstrap.css when that was the trend many years ago.
Websites for what were ostensibly hobby projects didn't use to have a bland corporate look to them.
And it really gives me the ick when I see websites about things like game modding projects and they're full of AI linkedin-speak. I feel like if you were excited about building a mod for a game you wouldn't need AI to describe it for you, or write the announcements/reddit posts trying to reach out to the community.
I witness a large amount of AI generated pages at work and in the wild. Creative control belongs to the human because without it you get a scientifically accurate model without the stargazing factor.
I have built a few better sites after AI generates the shell. The colors and styling need about a dozen human interactions to get something passable as human created.
And the eyebrows have eyebrows
Yeah - I don't even bother judging a website by how useful it is anymore - if I see an em-dash I close it before I can read anything.
Just safer that way. You don't want to get the AI on you.