AI Content Is Invading the Real World | by Thomas Smith | The Generator | Jul, 2025 – Medium
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As I was walking through the secluded darkness of the Berkeley woods this week, I stumbled on an AI image.
Catching a glimpse of a poster for an upcoming event in the park where I was walking, I saw a vibrant, cartoony visual. It was full of color and movement — showing smiling kids and animals riding an ornate carousel.
“That looks a lot like AI!” I thought. Initially, I dismissed the idea. The middle of the woods seemed like a strange place to happen across an AI illustration.
But a closer look at the poster confirmed it. The top of the cartoon carousel was loaded up with the kinds of mangled, vaguely Cyrillic-looking nonsense letters that AI loves to generate.
The creators of the poster had clearly used ChatGPT or its ilk to make the poster.
That’s a pattern that I’m seeing more and more. From restaurants’ websites, to kids’ lessons plans, to local organizations’ posters and advertisements, AI content is invading the real world.
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