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The AI Aesthetic

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Re: The AI Aesthetic

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Post by jjcm »

hijp wrote: post #36
jjcm wrote: post #10

> There are other aesthetics my brain associates with AI, like beige/cream colors, orange accents, and serif typefaces Something to consider regarding the narrow space AI-created designs align on: LLMs are trained to write consistent code. This makes sense for something like a billing or a backend function - you want that code to be consistent. The problem though is that LLMs write code to represent designs as well,…

For Tarot, did you generate base-color, roughness and normal maps? How do you make sure something like the roughness map doesn't deviate slightly from the base-color?

Yea. I have a very speed run version of how I made that one here: https://x.com/pwnies/status/2076755344471289898

But basically diffui's build step provides an API to create normal/roughness/depth maps from images. It's essentially an interface to fal.ai's Patina model, which does a really good job at creating those.

The one thing that's missing with it though is metalness maps (Patina can theoretically output them, but they only have a ~10% success rate I've found). I'm trying to train my own diffusion model now to help generate those so the reflectivity isn't fully uniform. I just posted very, VERY early results here - right now my model has around a ~25% succes rate: https://x.com/pwnies/status/2082980850120163756

Re: The AI Aesthetic

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Post by olalonde »

firasd wrote: post #38

An irony to this is that the front-ends generated by older models are gonna end up looking distinctive. If you rock a Claude Sonnet 3.7 (or was it Sonnet 4) mid-2025 purple gradient background forever you've set yourself well apart

Would be cool to have models trained on specific eras of design, a bit like that LLM which was exclusively trained on pre-1931 text.

Re: The AI Aesthetic

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Post by senderista »

jjcm wrote: post #10

> There are other aesthetics my brain associates with AI, like beige/cream colors, orange accents, and serif typefaces Something to consider regarding the narrow space AI-created designs align on: LLMs are trained to write consistent code. This makes sense for something like a billing or a backend function - you want that code to be consistent. The problem though is that LLMs write code to represent designs as well,…

I was expecting Papyrus for the tarot page :)

Re: The AI Aesthetic

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Post by jjcm »

p-e-w wrote: post #22
jjcm wrote: post #10

> There are other aesthetics my brain associates with AI, like beige/cream colors, orange accents, and serif typefaces Something to consider regarding the narrow space AI-created designs align on: LLMs are trained to write consistent code. This makes sense for something like a billing or a backend function - you want that code to be consistent. The problem though is that LLMs write code to represent designs as well,…

> The problem though is that LLMs write code to represent designs as well, which means you get consistent designs. You end up aligning on a generic mean because of it, which is often why you see these repeated aesthetics. The funny thing is that looking like everyone else was once considered the definition of good UI design, because it helps users understand a new interface. Then mobile apps came and suddenly UI desi…

I think it's important to separate patterns from aesthetics. Patterns help us understand a new interface for sure, but aligned aethetics start to look mundane. That's why I was specifically calling out the color usage and typefaces.

I actually think the other things that Jim mentioned, such as the async task gradient / standard sidebar for agents are good things.

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Post by websight »

jjcm wrote: post #10

> There are other aesthetics my brain associates with AI, like beige/cream colors, orange accents, and serif typefaces Something to consider regarding the narrow space AI-created designs align on: LLMs are trained to write consistent code. This makes sense for something like a billing or a backend function - you want that code to be consistent. The problem though is that LLMs write code to represent designs as well,…

I don't think these look "bad" exactly, but they do look like AI, and I don't think that's just because I know they are.

Re: The AI Aesthetic

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Post by blfr »

I think that most early AI aesthetic will go the way of bootstrap and become associated with ultra utilitarian software where no one thought about intentionally making a design.

Fable can easily generate something like a design system for itself from whatever starting point you give it. So if you want different aesthetic, you can bang out the aesthetic first in Claude Design and then serve it to Claude Code to follow. It will follow.

Re: The AI Aesthetic

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Post by jjcm »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #37
azan_ wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly these examples absolutely DO look like generic AI slop, no offense.

I think the neon ramen example looks pretty awesome.

ty ty, though I do agree with azan that the imagery inside of it looks generated (as it is).

That was really a test of whether or not newer models could implement box shapes that aren't provided by CSS. Opus 5 was one of the first that really nailed that - it's been a long standing test I've had for img->html.

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Post by shimman »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #37
azan_ wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly these examples absolutely DO look like generic AI slop, no offense.

I think the neon ramen example looks pretty awesome.

It's a copy of cyberpunk 2077 aesthetic (which if you search on google you'll see many css + component libraries trying to recreate it).

Re: The AI Aesthetic

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Post by ayaros »

> They should’ve just thrown unicorns in there for the trifecta

Ah, unicorns. We've seen plenty of them throughout the AI bubble. Very apropos.

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Post by motoroco »

jjcm wrote: post #10

> There are other aesthetics my brain associates with AI, like beige/cream colors, orange accents, and serif typefaces Something to consider regarding the narrow space AI-created designs align on: LLMs are trained to write consistent code. This makes sense for something like a billing or a backend function - you want that code to be consistent. The problem though is that LLMs write code to represent designs as well,…

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