Stop building rainbow AI slop

I have been thinking the other day: a guy posted his university project for others to see. It was an obviously AI-generated design: purple gradients, rounded corners, weird typography. It is strange, because if he took a 10 year old Bootstrap library and used jQuery for simple logic it would be much more genuine. You simply cannot trust these generated projects—not because the authors are malicious—but because the line is so blurry. One site could be presenting a truly great idea, but through the lens of AI-generated design it got completely undermined. On another occasion, the same design was created by someone who does not care. The issue is that you cannot tell the difference. It is essentially an uncanny valley except instead of human faces it is UI and UX design. The outcome is the same: it makes it much harder to look genuine and gain our trust. It is like when the robots look more compelling when they look like robots, not like human—quirky hand-crafted sites with bugs look and…