Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 5d vancouver's first ai election is still three months away but we're starting out incredibly strong
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God it looks like shit You can always tell genAI because it's cartoon characters but then everything is just so busy and overdetailed that it makes your eyes water
(City Hall is missing an entire finger.) If a candidate can't be bothered to pay attention to the campaign material they put out there, I can't be bothered to pay attention to the candidate nor to take them seriously at all. NEXT.
AI but with a "Hello Fellow Kids" vibe.
Fun to think about whoever made this being like “we need an old person, and a dog” and someone saying “what about diversity ?” And them responding “give the old lady a walker. nailed it!”
That verbiage combined with the AI slop graphic tells me that this is NIMBY garbage. Which, it being Vancouver... I don't know why I hoped for anything else.
I personally like the family of four with identical facial expressions. Nothing says professional like using AI to make your shitty memes for you.
the West End towers are in the good half of the image. checkmate, NIMBYs
Help us! City Hall's coming for grandma!! Not if I have anything to say about it!
Oh boy. Remember her from last election, her qualification was apparently that she followed daddy dearest around as a kid and thus "gets development".
NIMBYism dogshit AI images 🤝 colleen hardwick
AI image aside, I absolutely hate this kind of meaningless "transparent-neighborhood-community-planning" text slop. It means nothing and deceives voters by mixing up progressive sounding words.
Are they quoting Kenneth Chan who is in turn presumably just quoting them to begin with?
Everyone the AI slop version of her is protecting is white. That checks out.
Oh my. Why? Do they really think we are that stupi… Sorry what? That’s a real picture? Well then I can hardly wait to see what HRH Sim posts.
That ad alone is reason enough not to vote for TEAM.