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Re: Can you tell the difference between AI-generated vs human-made fonts?
The conclusion I have come to with my own experiments with AI — experiments in image and music generation, both things at which AI is substantially better than it is at type —is that AI is boring. It…10 -
Re: Can you tell the difference between AI-generated vs human-made fonts?
As Mark noted, none of these are good typeface designs, so even if I had been unable to determine which were AI, all that would have been demonstrated is that AI is capable of making fonts as bad as …9 -
Re: When did high-waisted (and low-waisted) fonts/lettering first appear?
I wasn’t specifically referring to the high-waistedness feature, but to this kind of mediaeval letter as one of the sources of inspiration for some features of this lettering: the shapes of bowls and…1 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
But it is also confabulating things and misrepresenting them as sources. So maybe deception is not the intent — to what extent can we ascribe any intent to the machine —, but there is something like …1 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
One of the things that strikes me about ChatGPT’s image generation is the degree to which it is infected by typography. All letterforms, by default, gravitate towards their common typographic represe…6
