Wall Street’s deal toys are booming. AI is making them weirder.
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Even deal toys—pure signaling artifacts—are absorbing AI aesthetics, which is a small but telling sign of how quickly AI-generated design is normalizing in high-status contexts. For brand and design teams, the question shifts from “should we use AI?” to “where do we deliberately keep a human hand to stand out.”
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