WICKER PARK — For more than a decade, Wintrust Bank has earned good will by offering nonprofit groups the opportunity to raise awareness via murals that adorn the bank’s highly-visible property along the Kennedy Expressway.

The Wintrust Mural Building‘s rotating public art has usually been admired daily — until now.

The building currently features an organization that commissioned AI-generated art, which was hung about nine weeks ago. Since then, passersby have taken to Instagram and Reddit to slam the use of AI on a mural that would typically be created by local artists.

Multiple posters decried the “AI slop” and complained that artificial intelligence was stealing jobs from human artists.

“Chicago! I hate this billboard more every time I drive past it,” wrote one Redditer. “So hard o

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