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AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

nelson.cloud

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Re: AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

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So much this, blogs add an image for the sake of having an image. At this point it would be much better to just have a random dog or a cat pic, it is as relevant to your blog post as your random generated thing, but I'd prefer seeing a random happy pup.

And if you generated a pic I suppose you also generated your post, so I'm way less likely to pay attention to it.

Re: AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

#82

I use AI-themed images for the opener to my blog. It's typically a steampunk robot image that is not related to the topic of the post. The actual content is written by me. If there are any code samples that were AI-generated, I'll call them out as such.

> AI-themed images for the opener

Yes, this is the exact kind of AI image usage that discourages me (and presumably this post's author) from reading the rest of it.

Re: AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

#84

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It's a useful heuristic. There's a good chance it's just nonsense rather than interesting information that was AI edited. Just give me your prompt. I'd rather read the raw prompt than the grandiose slop output. It's way to verbose, and enumerates every useless microscopic detail, real and imagined.

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Re: AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

#85

Public shaming and rejection are probably the best way to teach people it's wasting people's time and disrespectful. If you couldn't otherwise write it yourself for whatever reason it's best not to until you can.

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LOL, TF are you talking about? It's neither a political nor ethical, it's practical. It's about not wasting your previous time on earth reading garbage the author doesn't understand themselves.

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#86

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>Please, I NEED YOU TO TAKE A PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN COURSE FOR YOUR BLOG. Go to art school or else I won't even consider looking at your website. Did you read tfa? >I’d rather see a shitty Microsoft Paint drawing as opposed to some AI image.

And I'd rather see the Mona Lisa.

Re: AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

#87
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The same goes for your business. Your AI “art” isn’t eye catching, at first glance it’s lazy. A longer glance it’s unsettling. We’re heading for a really boring period in graphic design.

It’s not like stock photos of infeasibly attractive people eating ludicrously overstuffed burgers were ever interesting or believable.

either way, looks like we're staring down the barrel of mediocrity - the AI isn't a fix. You can't really AI yourself outside of 'the average x/y/z' that these models generate. being specific with your prompting still leads to the most average version of said prompt...rinse repeat.

Re: AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

#88

These are all symptoms of the adjustment period following a disruptive technology. Eventually it'll be perfectly normal to use AI-generated content (and use AI to summarize it), and nobody will bat an eye.

The normalization process for social media involved it stabilizing in a place where a huge number of people know it’s terrible for you.

Re: AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

#89

This is not surprising. Would you rather have handmade Italian shoes or factory made shoes sewn by a robot. Humans assign quality relative to themselves. A chess game between to bots is boring, no matter how strong the bots are. Humans generally compare themselves to other humans and that's part of how they value.

> A chess game between to bots is boring, no matter how ... I'm thinking quite a few chess nerds could be interested - depending on how the game develops.

Some of the most fascinating games are between Stockfish and Leela. The quoted statement is grossly ignorant.

Re: AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

#90

Public shaming and rejection are probably the best way to teach people it's wasting people's time and disrespectful. If you couldn't otherwise write it yourself for whatever reason it's best not to until you can.

> Public shaming...

People already tried to cancel others because they didn't agree with them. Eventually the most of people came to a conclusion that it is no good. I think at least that the most did just that. So I'm proposing another solution, just ignore what you don't like. No one is forcing you to read a blog that uses AI generated images or uses a wrong color for its background.

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