#NOAI

You spoke. we listened.

We recently included an AI generated pic with one of our posts, for a laugh.

It did not go down well with many of you - well, at least 3 anyway.

All here at Village Music:

The Management team

Web design dep

Marketing unit

HR department

Logistics

Secretarial & maintenance

(i.e me - Jamie)

Would like to profoundly apologise for our grotesque use of AI imagery.

We freely admit, as a small business on a shoe-string budget, we had embraced the amazing (but dirty) power of AI to ease the burdening workload, and to help us with more professional looking and engaging marketing.

However, it seems it may have engaged you, our friends a customers, in the wrong way.

This was not our intention.

We would like to assure each of the 3 of you that had concerns enough to comment:

Megan

Cammy

Edward

The only design job Ai replaced was me pissing around with photoshop at 11:47pm on a Tuesday night.

But no longer.

Henceforth, Village Music will enact a STRICT No Ai Slop Policy.

From today onwards our content will only be 100% authentic, free-range human made slop

And we will work to replace all AI created images we have previously used.

(I also apologise in advance for terrible spelling and grammar that is likely to follow)

Yours truly

Jamie