diff --git a/examples/llava/clip.cpp b/examples/llava/clip.cpp
index 14e02c8dd..6b2909484 100644
--- a/examples/llava/clip.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/clip.cpp
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include "ggml.h"
 #include "ggml-alloc.h"
 #include "ggml-backend.h"
+#include "log.h"
 
 #ifdef GGML_USE_CUDA
 #include "ggml-cuda.h"
@@ -39,11 +40,6 @@
 #include <cinttypes>
 #include <limits>
 
-#define LOG_INF(...) do { fprintf(stdout, __VA_ARGS__); } while (0)
-#define LOG_WRN(...) do { fprintf(stderr, __VA_ARGS__); } while (0)
-#define LOG_ERR(...) do { fprintf(stderr, __VA_ARGS__); } while (0)
-#define LOG_DBG(...) do { fprintf(stderr, __VA_ARGS__); } while (0)
-
 //#define CLIP_DEBUG_FUNCTIONS
 
 // RGB uint8 image
diff --git a/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp b/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp
index 161098585..6a3d798d0 100644
--- a/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/llava-cli.cpp
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static void process_prompt(struct llava_context * ctx_llava, struct llava_image_
         response += tmp;
         if (strcmp(tmp, "</s>") == 0) break;
         if (strstr(tmp, "###")) break; // Yi-VL behavior
-        LOG("%s", tmp);
+        printf("%s", tmp);
         if (strstr(response.c_str(), "<|im_end|>")) break; // Yi-34B llava-1.6 - for some reason those decode not as the correct token (tokenizer works)
         if (strstr(response.c_str(), "<|im_start|>")) break; // Yi-34B llava-1.6
         if (strstr(response.c_str(), "USER:")) break; // mistral llava-1.6
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ static void process_prompt(struct llava_context * ctx_llava, struct llava_image_
     }
 
     common_sampler_free(smpl);
-    LOG("\n");
+    printf("\n");
 }
 
 static struct llama_model * llava_init(common_params * params) {
diff --git a/examples/llava/llava.cpp b/examples/llava/llava.cpp
index be6988540..4b66d50eb 100644
--- a/examples/llava/llava.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/llava.cpp
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include "llava.h"
 
 #include "llama.h"
+#include "log.h"
 
 #include <algorithm>
 #include <cerrno>
@@ -11,13 +12,8 @@
 #include <limits>
 #include <vector>
 
-#define die(msg)          do { fputs("error: " msg "\n", stderr);                exit(1); } while (0)
-#define die_fmt(fmt, ...) do { fprintf(stderr, "error: " fmt "\n", __VA_ARGS__); exit(1); } while (0)
-
-#define LOG_INF(...) do { fprintf(stdout, __VA_ARGS__); } while (0)
-#define LOG_WRN(...) do { fprintf(stderr, __VA_ARGS__); } while (0)
-#define LOG_ERR(...) do { fprintf(stderr, __VA_ARGS__); } while (0)
-#define LOG_DBG(...) do { fprintf(stdout, __VA_ARGS__); } while (0)
+#define die(msg)          do { LOG_ERR("%s", "error: " msg "\n");        exit(1); } while (0)
+#define die_fmt(fmt, ...) do { LOG_ERR("error: " fmt "\n", __VA_ARGS__); exit(1); } while (0)
 
 // RGB uint8 image
 struct clip_image_u8 {