The Next Default: Why Every Anti-AI Design Rule Becomes a Style
One viral checklist lists the tells of AI-built websites; another video says creators answer AI sameness with deliberately ugly fonts. I traced both. The AI look comes from a handful of tool defaults the AI companies recommended, and the anti-slop rules they wrote to escape it seeded a second set of tells within months. I keep a list of design rules of my own, and the research says what happens to lists like mine.



