The remarkably human task of giving AI ‘good enough’ taste

Ben Blumenrose has noticed that the floor for AI-generated website design is rising fast. As co-founder and managing partner at the venture capital firm Designer Fund, and a practicing designer for two decades, Blumenrose has been tracking the rapid improvement of AI-generated visuals. He can still spot the difference between a site designed by a professional human and one produced by a model (some tells: the proliferation of “pills,” floating dashboards, and gradients, gradients, gradients), but the AI results are “five times better than what the same kind of tools did a year ago.” He anti...