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BY Jude Cramer

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AI slop has a signature style. At a glance, it’s easy to clock the hallmarks of an AI-generated poster: crowded blocks of cliché-ridden text. Cutesy characters straight from the uncanny valley. Inexplicably explosion-filled backgrounds.

But Canva might have the solution to graphic design’s AI crisis. The platform’s newest feature reimagines AI design from the ground up, and it’s causing a stir on social media.

Introducing Canva Brush

Canva Brush is a vision-language model built for design. Rather than taking a user’s prompt and spitting out a fully formed graphic, Brush takes designs step-by-step the way a human would, thanks to training on real design processes.

Brush is also built to combat one of the most frustrating aspects of AI image-generation. Often, asking for a single edit has an unintended domino effect, messing with unrelated aspects of a graphic that the user didn’t want to change at all.…