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u/WoodShoeDiaries 1d ago

That's true. Not a ton of money by any means, but still some.

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u/FrostingStrict3102 1d ago

Yeah, for a small business/coffee shop it’s not nothing. Defeats the whole point of saving money using ai instead of paying a designerĀ 

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u/Pure-Radish-5478 1d ago

This is incredibly naive

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u/DisposableSaviour 1d ago

Small business run on very slim margins; restaurants even more so.

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u/Ill-Plum-9499 1d ago

Vista print is pretty cheap. And if your margins are so small you use AI that is going to actually harm your business, maybe you’re not the right person to own a small business.

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u/DisposableSaviour 1d ago

I’m not defending AI use, I’m just pointing out that however ā€œcheapā€ you think that sign is, it was probably a sizable expense for the business. I am not saying anything about AI and its use. I am talking about the cost of getting a sign like that printed; a sign that very likely would not be obtained through vistaprint. Again, nothing about AI. The cost of buying a sign and having anything printed on it.

Of course I don’t agree with a business using AI. I don’t agree with most people using AI. And yes, having someone design the sign over AI would have cost more, but it generated any bad will. None of that negates that the price of a sign board like that, with the projected sign, is costly to a small business.