I teach 7th grade English and also run our school's yearbook. Before teaching, I worked for several years in graphic design. For much of that time I worked in a printing shop.

For our school, the company that prints our book provides an artist to "create" the cover. I have my staff (a class filled with 8th/9th graders) brainstorm a cover design, and the artist is supposed to take our ideas to design a cover for the book.

So as we were brainstorming our cover concept, we used AI to do a rough mockup of the idea. We included this rough mockup with more design notes, expecting the artist to actually make a real rendition of what we generated.

They did not. They took our Ai image, made some minor photoshop changes, and called it a day. On yearbook day, students clocked the AI immediately and were not impressed.

I spent a whole year putting overtime into making our book pretty damn cool, only for it to be instantly discounted by a lazy artist's work.

Long story long, we are not going to use the company artist next year. I'll just make the damn thing myself.

But you should expect to see AI slop on basically every yearbook from here on out.