The inevitable outcome here is that designed materials become so generic and infinitely produceable that they become worthless background noise. We are well on the way to that path. For almost all materials the only value of getting a seriously produced work of design (i.e., the "make me a magazine-style pitch deck for our seed round" this design engine mentions) is a signaling function that some combination of effor…
I’m glad people will have to evaluate the substance of the deck rather than using a cheap heuristic like how visually appealing the presentation is. I understand there tends to be a correlation between visual appeal and effort, and correlation between effort and merit, but correlation is notoriously flawed. Flawed models can be useful, but only if one qualifies their use sufficiently. I don’t think most people who us…
A bad design with a good presentation is doomed eventually. A good design with a bad presentation is doomed immediately.
Presentation will always be important as long as humans are involved because we're biologically wired to be attracted to good-looking things. Now I do think that what we associate with "good" will violently change, as it always does (look at fashion).
My guess is that verbosity will be an immediate turnoff, em dashes another immediate turnoff, and we'll value ooga booga conciseness over all other aesthetics. We've already unknowingly begun to move in that direction with the minimalism trend.