“Of Course I Want To See Your AI Poster”

AI Lover ’28

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A true joy has come to Trinity’s campus. No, President Lugo is yet to declare Friday classes illegal and Cooper is still kind of underwhelming. Instead, AI posters have taken over the walls and windows of our College. Each time I walk into my dorm or down the Long Walk or into Mather or into an academic building, I’m met with posters that can only be described as freaking amazing. They boil down the design process into single-sentence generative AI prompts, serving as constant reminders of true innovation that takes place on our campus.

It is first essential to learn how to identify an AI poster. They look good, like really really well done. Its figures are often realistic and true to form; they stare out at you with life-filled eyes and emotioned faces, grasping at the world with very normal five fingered hands. Its typefaces look professional, truly drawing in the viewer. Their layouts are hyper-unusual, a complete masterclass in creativity that puts posters from Cheret’s lithographs to the WPA to the Public Theater to complete shame; they’re making perfect art, something us humans can never do. They leave us with a great taste in our mouth, getting more from art than we’ve ever gotten before.

These posters are at the core of everything that Trinity must become. Their efficiency, artistic integrity and talent should be true beacons for our student run organizations and even our academic departments. When I saw the theater and dance department’s “Syllabus Rex” poster series I was thrilled that our campus was finally innovating, that we’ve thrown away the annoying starving artist and put AI to good use. When I came across AVP Williams’ recent AI Linkedin post I was excited to see that we’re finally using a new way to reach out to prospective students. Trinity is truly becoming a hub for the future.

There is nobody forcing our student organizations to advertise their events or academic departments to promote their majors—these are conscious, voluntary choices to make amazing art. Using AI to do this completely voluntary promotion proves that we are true innovators: here, we choose to care so much about the very things we’re supposed to care so much about. We ask a skillful supercomputer to make us event posters that no wise, talented artists on our campus could even dream to recreate.

The school has openly sponsored and vocally supported AI art, and seems poised to continue to do so in the future. During his inaugural address. President Lugo endorsed task automation and language generation through AI, asking us all to shape the ethics and interpretation of the future. The College must commit to continuing this fantastic, innovative policy of AI use on campus. The Office of Student Life and Engagement should create a signup system that matches clubs in need of design help with AI agents that can help make their posters for them. Clubs should be able to enter into either project or semester-based agreements with these agents for their wonderful work. A system of sponsorship will strengthen AI innovation on campus and ensure that every single club can make posters, entirely for free.

In the midst of a seeming AI takeover, I challenge our student body to use it even more. I challenge us to find the best prompts we possibly can to ensure no wasted time doing frivolous artistic endeavors. I challenge us never to throw away ten minutes picking a Canva template and typing basic information into it, a machine can do that for us. I challenge us to consider the message we send to the rest of our community when we waste time having a human make our art instead of using an AI artist. It’s time to use AI.