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Tattoo Studios Keep Landing on the Same Six References

A Distinctiveness Audit of the AI-Era Flash Wall

A poster from the School of Continuous Improvement codes eleven months of intake photographs across 46 tattoo studios, finding that AI-suggested reference images pull independently operated flash walls toward the same shrinking set of archetype classes.

AuthorsTorun Ezeigwe, Casimir Beng, Anouk Mensah
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.cp69yz
Pages1
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_cp69yz,
  author       = {Torun Ezeigwe and Casimir Beng and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {Tattoo Studios Keep Landing on the Same Six References: A Distinctiveness Audit of the AI-Era Flash Wall},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.cp69yz},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-distinctiveness-audit-cp69yz/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}