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Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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Post by properbrew »

mft_ wrote: post #19

Can you quantify what it is you don’t like? Like, to my eyes ‘original’ is fine - and it’s very similar to ‘QT’ expect with rounded corners and brighter colours.

I find it such a hard thing to quantify, I know it's not helpful but you can just feel the slop seep through.

I'm not sure if it's because I've iterated through so many sites that LLMs have produced that "slop" is instantly recognisable and it just feels soulless.

Not like web pages ever had a soul, but it's not there on the generic LLM generated sites.

Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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Post by deaux »

LucidLynx wrote: post #20

>> Slop is not a distinct style, it can be overlaid on top of many others. Even when I got it to make a page to look like X, it looked like X with slop. Today, I can visit a website and instantly tell it was generated using LLMs and agents from A to Z: 1. Everything is in blue or mauve gradient, with a white background, and a single JavaScript-heavy page that lags as soon as you scroll a little. 2. There are always a…

So you can tell for maybe 20% of websites that have been generated by LLMs over the last few months.

Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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Post by properbrew »

Retr0id wrote: post #3
abraxas wrote: post #2

I think this says more about "modern" UI than it does about AI slop. The awfulness of all this comes mostly from the fact that widgets no longer have consistent shape, theme or interaction behaviour ever since desktop paridigms and original Xerox/Parc research were abandoned in favour of web slop. So yeah, this is much more Web Slop than AI Slop. AI is just amplifying it.

Continuing in that vein, it'd be interesting to see a Win98 version. Edit: https://retr0.id/stuff/deslop/

This one works well. I think it's because there's no shine to it, it's just the data, what you need, right there without trying to fluff it all out with rounded edges and superfluous stuff.

Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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Post by deaux »

swiftcoder wrote: post #7

To me the "AI slop" mostly just looks like the last decade of SaaS products. Do the landing pages of auth0.com, devcycle.com, micro.com, or datadog.com not look like slop to other people?

auth0 does get close to slop. If I were them I'd definitely change things up. Devcycle and Datadog are nothing like generated slop. I haven't seen Fable websites yet - supposedly a lot better - but Opus and GPT can't design anything even close to those two. They can implement it if you give them a screenshot, but that's not designing something. Micro.com shows me a domain sale page.

Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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Post by Gander5739 »

Retr0id wrote: post #3
abraxas wrote: post #2

I think this says more about "modern" UI than it does about AI slop. The awfulness of all this comes mostly from the fact that widgets no longer have consistent shape, theme or interaction behaviour ever since desktop paridigms and original Xerox/Parc research were abandoned in favour of web slop. So yeah, this is much more Web Slop than AI Slop. AI is just amplifying it.

Continuing in that vein, it'd be interesting to see a Win98 version. Edit: https://retr0.id/stuff/deslop/

For some balance in the replies, I must say I find this rather hideous. To each their own, I suppose.

Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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LucidLynx wrote: post #20

>> Slop is not a distinct style, it can be overlaid on top of many others. Even when I got it to make a page to look like X, it looked like X with slop. Today, I can visit a website and instantly tell it was generated using LLMs and agents from A to Z: 1. Everything is in blue or mauve gradient, with a white background, and a single JavaScript-heavy page that lags as soon as you scroll a little. 2. There are always a…

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Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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Post by chorkpop »

itake wrote: post #13
wuliwong wrote: post #6

My experience with this is 180 degrees opposite. It's been really easy to create really nice UIs for all kinds of one-off apps I've made for myself with AI. In fact, it has been one of the most fun parts of this whole AI thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Any chance you could share screenshots? Even the example apps in the post seemed like AI slop to me. Common markers are too noisy/busy (mainly repeated or rephrased information). Text being a bit too big (Codex-only?).

Yes in my experience, AI designs might look okay on first glance but when you really start to look you start to see strange and inconsistent things. Similar to looking at generated code.

Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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Post by dewey »

bronlund wrote: post #34

I donno. They all look ugly. When making small tools for myself, I just tell it to use Svelte and then wrap it up using Tauri - no graphical cues whatsoever. And they usually comes out pretty good by my taste.

That's just the "original" they mentioned here without a prompt (https://envs.net/~volpe/projects/ai-design.html) but these ofen are easily identified as AI generated. I don't think it's too bad but it's definitely a tell.
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