i think there's a simpler explanation: anything associated with AI is just deeply uncool, like a teenager cringing at slang from their parents' generation
Jake Lazaroff
Is fun how the general public is convinced that things I've been using for decades—em-dashes, the rule of three, and now, apparently, serif fonts—are signifiers for slop.
We're training people to use bad heuristics and we're going to make both design and the written word worse.
Scoiattolo
I was talking about this the other day. The return of Serifs, their cultural association with AI, and by association, slop.
AI companies are using serif to project humanity. Critics are calling it “tasteslop.”
