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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 #90

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> 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.

To cancel someone was really popular for a couple years starting just after covid. There's probably a better definition somewhere, but basically it is when a collective of like-minded people decide to publicly shame a person until they are too embarrassed to have an online presence, or even worse, until companies are pressured to not employ the person. It was like unofficial unions against someone existing. It stopped after enough people were cancelled that they were no longer powerless together. Then people who hate others had to evolve into different ways to be disrespectful because this method stopped working, which is why you don't see cancelling anymore

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

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It's like styrofoam stucco on the ceiling. Decoration and ornament have served always to signal extra effort that went into something, signaling that it is considered important and valued by the maker/owner. But people also have incentive to do cheaper mimicry. And then the viewers have incentive to distinguish real from fake to see where true, scarce effort went. These dynamics are crucial for understanding the feel…

In a blog, real images signify you spent a lot of time creating the post, it was very important to you, and you likely made sure the details in the text were accurate. While AI images in a blog signify low effort high volume posting where the text likely was just copied from AI without any care.

I don't think it signifies any of those things. This is all new stuff. Some people have decided to offload image-creation to machines because what they care about is the text.

This stuff you say it signifies, it says more about you than them.

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

#203
post #81

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.

if cybersecurity blogs replaced AI hacker images with dog pics the world would be a better place.

I have a compromise: An AI hacker image using a picture of your own dog.

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

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There is an artistry in assembling other art into a single cohesive piece. The film director doesn’t design the sets or give the performances or do the makeup, but they place an authorial stamp on the production by selecting what will and will not end up in the frame.

Oh yeah I can just remember all those famous renowned collages that everyone associates as art. A director does a hell of a lot more than select what goes in a frame and then sit back and watch it come together.

A collage made by Picasso is not associated as art?

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

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Clipart exists, free use art exists, the Gimp Green Pepper stamp tool exists. I would read a blog with extensive pepper stamp art before something with over the top hacker aesthetic AI generated slop art.

So what about the use of the odd AI generated icon, not some extensive use?

Gotta use the green pepper stamp tool for bullet points. /s

Little icons would be less noticeable at least.

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

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There is an artistry in assembling other art into a single cohesive piece. The film director doesn’t design the sets or give the performances or do the makeup, but they place an authorial stamp on the production by selecting what will and will not end up in the frame.

There is artistry in assembling other art into a single cohesive piece. A film is a collection of the work of artists and performers. Combining AI imagery and AI text together does not make art, because none of the constituent parts are art. A few prompts do not make art.

Writing a blog post is a creative effort, selecting a few pieces (generated or not) is creative, too, whether it is up to your standards are not.

The gatekeeping on this is crazy. I really wonder how artists discussed photography and other advances.

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

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post #32

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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.

> You're setting yourself up for a lonely life. What a ridiculous conclusion jump. It's the complete opposite of that. I prefer human things, human interaction, with human beings involved, which in some way reflect the human experience.

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

#208

If a content is making a positive impact on your life, your mental health, your family's well being, your general outlook, your future, would it matter if is from AI or from human?

> If it is making a positive impact, would it matter if it's AI or human

We're drowning in this stuff, and no one has enough hours in their day to find out if obviously AI-generated slop can make a positive impact on their life. Why don't you read it and let us know? We'll continue to not engage with it.

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

#209
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.

The bendy arm people

https://www.wired.com/story/corporate-memphis-design-tech/

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

#210
post #81

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.

if cybersecurity blogs replaced AI hacker images with dog pics the world would be a better place.

Exactly, I totally forgot there even are existing apis that return open source dog and cat pictures
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