mandem's team image looks so utterly uninspired and reeks of ai. on the professional side (lol) i think it's completely embarrassing, for the entire scene, for the supposed second best team in europe to sport a logo that has no heart or thought put into it. ofc this leads to the obvious "we couldn't care less so wouldn't it be funny if a top team had an ai logo lol", but it either leaves no lasting impact on the brand of the team at best, or leaves a negative impression on what the team stands for at worst.
last season's main winners in rgl also had an ai generated team image, and i'm sure there are other teams in lower divisions all across the leagues that do this because they think it's funny (or maybe even in rare cases they think it actually looks good, which is incredibly sad).
idk maybe i care too much and am looking too deep into it, and i can't speak for everyone, but whenever i see one of these shitstains of "graphic design" online or in person, i just have such a negative visceral reaction to it and lose trust in whatever the person, business or product stands for. i also don't know how feasible it is to police every team logo to sniff out any traces of ai. i just know that it sours my opinion of anyone that is stupid enough to use ai slop to represent themselves online, and by proxy it makes me upset that etf2l, rgl, essentials etc. allows these people to tarnish the image of their organizations with their use. hope that at least one person can agree with the title of this thread and starts a conversation about it.
mandem's team image looks so utterly uninspired and reeks of ai. on the professional side (lol) i think it's completely embarrassing, for the entire scene, for the supposed second best team in europe to sport a logo that has no heart or thought put into it. ofc this leads to the obvious "we couldn't care less so wouldn't it be funny if a top team had an ai logo lol", but it either leaves no lasting impact on the brand of the team at best, or leaves a negative impression on what the team stands for at worst.
last season's main winners in rgl also had an ai generated team image, and i'm sure there are other teams in lower divisions all across the leagues that do this because they think it's funny (or maybe even in rare cases they think it actually looks good, which is incredibly sad).
idk maybe i care too much and am looking too deep into it, and i can't speak for everyone, but whenever i see one of these shitstains of "graphic design" online or in person, i just have such a negative visceral reaction to it and lose trust in whatever the person, business or product stands for. i also don't know how feasible it is to police every team logo to sniff out any traces of ai. i just know that it sours my opinion of anyone that is stupid enough to use ai slop to represent themselves online, and by proxy it makes me upset that etf2l, rgl, essentials etc. allows these people to tarnish the image of their organizations with their use. hope that at least one person can agree with the title of this thread and starts a conversation about it.
Good shout on the MANDEM side, because they did used to have their own unique team image without the help of AI (to my knowledge). I wonder what made them come up with this stupid idea.
Glad someone brought this up because it seems to me that many people don't unfortunately understand the ethical problems AI brings to the table. Any sort of non-human materials or "pieces of art" should not be propagated and spread around, even if the intentions behind it are innocent. They can admittedly be very amusing, but even light-hearted things have their limits.
Imo might as well restrict it. ETF2L already reverts inappropriate team names, images etc. And that comes from my own-hand experience when I wanted to call my team pen15 but had to change it to People Eliminating Nefariousness 15. This time we can perhaps let it slide, but for the future new rules should definetly be established, which clarify the usage of media in the league(s).
Good shout on the MANDEM side, because they did used to have their own unique team image without the help of AI (to my knowledge). I wonder what made them come up with this stupid idea.
Glad someone brought this up because it seems to me that many people don't unfortunately understand the ethical problems AI brings to the table. Any sort of non-human materials or "pieces of art" should not be propagated and spread around, even if the intentions behind it are innocent. They can admittedly be very amusing, but even light-hearted things have their limits.
Imo might as well restrict it. ETF2L already reverts inappropriate team names, images etc. And that comes from my own-hand experience when I wanted to call my team pen15 but had to change it to People Eliminating Nefariousness 15. This time we can perhaps let it slide, but for the future new rules should definetly be established, which clarify the usage of media in the league(s).
draw an image in paint and everybody will like it more than a crappy ai image. better yet get a 1983 dad joke from a news paper article and people will still prefer it to ur ai team pic
draw an image in paint and everybody will like it more than a crappy ai image. better yet get a 1983 dad joke from a news paper article and people will still prefer it to ur ai team pic