User expresses concern that AI is leading to a lack of originality in design, suggesting a need for tools that encourage unique and diverse design outcomes.
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend. Since everyone started using AI for "inspiration" or "moodboarding," every new brand identity or UI looks exactly the same. It’s always that same "clean, soft-minimalist, slightly futuristic" look. Because AI is trained on what *already* exists and what is *already* popular, it’s creating a loop. We use AI to get ideas -> we create things that look like AI -> AI trains on our new work -> everything becomes even more identical. We are losing the **"Happy Accidents."** Remember when design used to have weird, slightly uncomfortable, "human" flaws that eventually became iconic? AI can't do "weird" because it's programmed to be "correct." Are we accidentally killing visual evolution by using a tool that only looks backwards?