Like many businesses during the Fleadh, Mal Houston from Three Rivers Restaurant used AI posters to highlight entertainment offerings and food deals.<\/p>\n
Then somebody put a sticker on a few of his flyers, reading: “Say no to AI.”<\/p>\n
“I don’t know who had time to do that during the fleadh, but it did make me think.”<\/p>\n
Houston recently announced that his restaurant and nightclub would no longer be using AI-generated art, “even if it does save a few shillings”.<\/p>\n
“Hospitality is going through a tough time at the minute, so AI can be convenient and cheap if you need a flyer or menu made up.<\/p>\n
“But the other side of that is that it is putting graphic designers out of jobs.<\/p>\n
“And just like the hospitality industry is struggling because of challenges we’re facing, they’re struggling because of AI.<\/p>\n
“And that’s not fair. These are creative people who’ve paid to develop their talents at university and because of AI the work just isn’t there.”<\/p>\n
So, while AI remains in its ascendancy and continues to proliferate, a small local – and global – backlash has begun.<\/p>\n
And Frances Smyth believes the fight against it is there to be won or lost by each individual.<\/p>\n
“People have a sense that the march of AI is inexorable, like we need to embrace it and like it’s going to happen anyway. <\/p>\n
“But it’s not inevitable. Like just I’ve disabled as much as possible on all my devices and I’m saying no. <\/p>\n
“You can do that – say no. We don’t need that slop in our lives.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like many businesses during the Fleadh, Mal Houston from Three Rivers Restaurant used AI posters to highlight entertainment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-747970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}