After World War II, with urgency to build and new construction methods, the style was essentially copied again and again without intentionality. The thinking got thinner and thinner, and all that was left were generic patterns ill-suited to the context at hand.
Katie Dill. Lenny & Friends Summit, presented by Stripe. Screengrab from the talk on YouTube.
LLMs are really good at telling you the most probable answer, which essentially means that they're able to tell you what has been or is popular now... They're less good at telling you what's original or specific to you, your brand, and your users' context.
Katie Dill, from Watch on YouTube
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We are starting to spot low-effort AI work, because it all looks the same. The building boom after WW2 had the same problem.