Has anyone in the US noticed Kroger/Ralph's/etc piping in AI slop music?
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I was looking into pepping up my CV and was poking around the 2024 CCC style guide when this abomination hit my retinas:
Use the provided LUTs to tint your images in the predefined scheme. You can load them with your graphics software of choice. Ask your friendly AI overlord if you don’t know how.
After being provided with such reproducible instructions, I was of course poking around blog posts for half an hour to finagle this thing. Adding insult to injury: poking around the LUT files shows they were made by Affinity Studio (a freeware pumped out by Canva) instead of the true scotsman's choice: the G'MIC command line tool! (In fairness, there doesn't seem to be a FOSS option with a usable GUI for this task. The G'MIC GIMP plugin is sort of okay, but it can't parse this particular file.)
Affinity is (was) an actually great paid software suite that was the best shot at ending the Adobe cartel; unfortunately they were recently bought by Canva and lobotomized.