While the Bay Area may be home to the world’s leading artificial intelligence innovations, one Oakland music venue has moved to ban it outright, asserting that the technology is giving “the ick.”
Thee Stork Club is now requiring all fliers for shows at its venue to be made by humans, effectively prohibiting the use of AI to create promotional artwork for gigs.
“As an independent alt venue we feel the poster art for a show has always been an essential part of the creative process of the live shows,” Thee Stork Club posted to Instagram on Wednesday, Sept. 10. “Many graphic artists have cut their professional chops by (creating) poster art for live music and we wanna keep supporting that by not undercutting artists just to save a few bucks.”
To that end, Thee Stork Club will be partnering with a handful of local graphic artists to assist acts that may not have the means to abide by the new rule. These artists will offer a “homies prices” to musicians for going through the venue.
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