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Lately I keep seeing it on social media, especially on Facebook: promoting your event with a poster made with AI.
And that’s ok, let’s be clear. Not everyone has friends who know graphic design, not everyone can do it themselves, not everyone has the option. From that point of view, AI actually helps.
What bothers me is something else: a lot of these posters have mistakes in them. Grammar mistakes, typos, you open a parenthesis and it never closes… basic stuff, the kind of thing you should pay a bit of attention to while making it, and especially before you hit publish.
And even more so in this Christian context. You’re promoting a Christian event — you don’t want people to look at it and say “these guys can’t even write, why would I go to them?”.
One minute of checking
Before I promote an event with an image made by AI, I should at least stop and think for a second:
- Is this image ok? Does it look decent, or can you tell from a mile away it was generated?
- Does it have all the information? And is that information correct?
- Is the text grammatically correct?
It’s not rocket science and it doesn’t take long. But it’s the difference between a poster that looks serious and one people squint at.
The head, not the tail
The Bible teaches us to seek to be the head and not the tail. So we could also aim for quality in these posters, and in anything we publish on social media. Not just post whatever, for the sake of posting.
Because if we embarrass ourselves — and I’m talking here in the Christian context — with images full of grammar mistakes, wrong information, weird pictures where you can clearly see they were generated, then I don’t know how much people really trust us enough to show up at the event in that picture.
And the other way around works too: if there’s quality in what we publish, people might trust it more and actually come to the event we’re promoting.
That’s my opinion. I think we should be more careful with our AI-generated images. Quality, not quantity.
The conversation continues here.