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AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

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

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Post by toasty228 »

brk wrote: post #32
wateralien wrote: post #21

AI-generated images discourage me from interacting with any entity AT ALL. Bar / restaurant posters, events, shops, anything. Because it makes the brand appear lazy. And in a weird way "anti-human". I don't have a better word than that.

You're setting yourself up for a lonely life. I think it is like CGI in movies, in the beginning it was often obvious and jarring. Over time as it gets better the obviousness of AI images will be much harder to spot and they will be common without being noteworthy.

"Just eat the shit, everyone is eating the shit, eat the shit with us or you'll be a lonely weirdo"

hm, ok

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

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Post by RandomLensman »

Thanemate wrote: post #98
zmmmmm wrote: post #8

To me there are different motivations to include imagery and some of them are just fine with AI generation. If the imagery actually goes to the substance of helping to illustrate or explain the actual content then it seems very superficial to reject it based on how it was generated. In fact it is kind of stupid to insist someone slavishly draw something by hand that could have been done an easier way. The problem com…

>In fact it is kind of stupid to insist someone slavishly draw something by hand that could have been done an easier way. Communicating low effort used to be insulting to the consumer, yet now I'm expected to praise it? I understand that we're not talking about monetary exchange, but we're still talking about my finite time in this world, time that I could've been invest reading or looking at something else. So we're…

Should everyone draw their icons by hand, too?

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

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

sunrunner wrote: post #43
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For every AI snob that's not reading an article because they see an AI image, there's 10 non-snobs who appreciate a decent usage. If you're creating complete slop, no one is reading your article in the first place. Full stop. The image doesn't matter. As with anything, it's about what you created, and creating at all - not the tool you used to create. The snobs and haters will continue to b!tch and moan. They always…

> it's about what you created But you didn't create anything in this case. Not the images at least. Which then casts doubt on the rest of the writing in said blog post.

But you didn't create anything if you used Photoshop... You didn't create anything if you used synth and autotune... You didn't do any scientific research if you used a calculator. You didn't do anything if you just piped together two programs.

I've heard it all before.

Gate keepers wanna keep the gate as long as they can.

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

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Post by rvz »

From [0] https://nelson.cloud/about/#skills

> Other: Claude Code

Then the author said:

> I know there are plenty of things you can roast my blog for but at least you know for a fact you’re getting the thoughts of a real human being and not some LLM.

So it is OK for you to use AI generation tools like Claude Code and likely using it in your blog or using it to generate code, but it isn't OK for you to see someone else using AI to generate images?

With the above already stated, that means the author cannot guarantee that not a single use of AI was used in their blog at all given that we know they use Claude.

Why preach fake principles with virtue signalling and then break your own standards in your own blog post?

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

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Post by bombcar »

wincy wrote: post #17

This hasn’t been my wife’s experience at all. She manually writes all her content, but uses AI images as sizzlers for the scenes (fan fic for popular shows). Short of getting the actors together for a million bucks, she’d be hard pressed to make these scenes a reality. It’s also supposed to be aspirational, like “what if the tv cast got back together for another season hey?” I think the average person just doesn’t re…

AI generic blogspam "art" - as off-putting or worse than clipart or those weird flat characters that took over everything "corporate" a few years ago.

Actually using AI to make a shitpost image relevant to the text? Amusing, fun, worthwhile.

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

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Post by ModernMech »

Laurel1234 wrote: post #38
iamwil wrote: post #11

Would photography discourage OP from reading a blog? Should I hand-paint my imagery? If I am the type of person that would use a camera, then maybe I'd be the type of person to hire a ghostwriter.

Photography is a form of art and requires human work and creativity, it isn't some clanker slop.

Okay but that’s exactly what the painters said about photography when it was invented. They said it was more chemistry than art because of the development process.

  Photography couldn’t qualify as an art in its own right, the explanation went, because it lacked “something beyond mere mechanism at the bottom of it.
https://daily.jstor.org/when-photography-was-not-art/

I don’t see how blanket labeling all images made with AI as slop is any different from people rejecting photographs because they were made with chemicals and lenses.

In 100 years the same article will be written about AI art, and will probably feature the phrase “clanker slop”.

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

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Post by mattferderer »

mastazi wrote: post #83

I have the same reaction with AI generated YouTube thumbnails. Something in the back of my mind immediately goes "it's probably low quality content" and I'm less likely to click.

I have the same reaction with the "YouTube face" thumbnails.

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

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Post by ipsento606 »

econ wrote: post #61
softwaredoug wrote: post #2

There’s also a class of “detailed agent written technical blog” that’s you can just scan and get the shape that it’s long paragraphs, tables of statistics, and dry LLM writing. You notice the blog has one or more such posts a day. It’s a turnoff immediately if someone shares what their agent wrote. It also has happened a few times they contain a fair number of misrepresentations and mistakes.

On the other hand, it could be great to have collapsed sections clearly marked as LLM with the name of the model, the prompt, the assumption the author somewhat checked it and didn't use it to write the article. You can put it inline or at the end of the article: references, citations, further reading, "AI". (It might also be the only way to stop training models on their own output)

Are you speaking in the abstract, or would you, personally, like that when reading a blog?

Speaking for myself, I have absolutely no interest in reading anything written by an LLM that I didn't prompt myself, under really any circumstances I can think of.

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

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Post by notRobot »

ordu wrote: post #90
Avicebron wrote: post #6

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.

I don't know what you really mean by "cancelling", but I think it's totally fine (and even good) to talk about the flaws in stuff.

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

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Post by ilamont »

Part of the problem is many bloggers think an image is required for every post. This is reinforced by algorithms which favor such posts, and drives bloggers to the easiest/fastest sources of free images.

The "featured image" in Wordpress is what gets shown on the index page, in shared social posts, and other contexts. And certainly, the algorithms favor such posts over pure text posts, even if the text content in the spartan post is far better.

There are other factors at play, too. Many bloggers are lazy, some are severely time constrained, a few are fearful of legal repercussions associated with copying images off the Internet, and a majority are creatively or technically incapable of making their own images to include on a personal blog post.

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