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AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

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Post by anthonypasq »

Thanemate wrote: post #330
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.

Last Christmas I caught our municipality (I'm from Greece) posting announcements about Christmas events on brochures that were choke full of obvious AI-generated images with Santa Claus, deer, trees, etc. and my first reaction was wondering exactly how hard would it have been if they were to hire artist(s) from our region, even if it was volunteer work, to have them promote their work instead. That's what a community…

> wondering exactly how hard would it have been if they were to hire artist(s)

approximately infinitely more hard, considering using AI is 0 hard.

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

abustamam wrote: post #333
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #131

I’m inclined to agree, but not as much because the image was generated with AI but rather because it’s rare for such images to exhibit taste. They feel like the visual equivalent of gilded twinkies, which is offputting. Selecting a stock image doesn’t have this effect, even if it’s not related to the post. Even the most unremarkable stock image has the fingerprints of its artist, and the choice itself can reveal thin…

I haven't done research on this but I feel like a lot of stock image companies are using AI now

Probably correct, which is why date filters come in handy.

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Post by RandomLensman »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #304
amelius wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True until LLMs become smarter than humans. At that point, you __want__ the AI generated image because it signals that AI was used.

“AI signals” are not a hallmark of quality; it’s the other way around. A superintelligent LLM/agent that wants its content to be read by humans (…which itself is suspicious - if not ominous) is not going to dress itself up as a slop-farm. Also I’d like to remind all the AI boosters and LLM glazers in the audience here that if something is interesting enough to read, it will be interesting enough to write ; if you out…

Not necessarily disagreeing on writing/reading as such - and there is an understanding effect in writing, I think.

That said, do you care in a similar way about important or interesting calculations being done by humans instead of machines? What is the cut-off function machine vs human?

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Post by RandomLensman »

Hoasi wrote: post #290
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I’ve heard this gatekeeping argument before, but it’s not convincing. Nobody prevents anyone from doing anything with any tool of their choosing; nobody prevents anyone from writing (or doing art or any other business, really). There is no gatekeeping or democratization of art needed either. If you just prompt an image, it has zero value, and if your blog is just a copy-paste from any LLM, what’s even the point? Prom…

What if you go through a couple of hours prompting and thinking to get to right image? What is the cutoff to "lazy" or "zero value"?

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Post by TaLiTr »

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 and rejection are probably the best way to teach people it's wasting people's time and disrespectful

Public shaming is disrespectful. As is the self-righteous "teaching" of something that is ultimately a personal preference. You aren't being forced to read someone's personal blog.

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Post by michaelt »

graemep wrote: post #320
michaelt wrote: post #289

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Some use of hero images by bloggers is a deliberate style choice, to emulate the norms of professional journalism. A lot of traditional news outlets have a style rule that every article must have an image. Look at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news https://www.nytimes.com/ https://www.economist.com etc - every article has an image. Even a report on something highly abstract - "BP reports record profits" - will be illustrated…

> Interestingly, professional journalism organisations often have pretty strict codes of practice about images, and photoshop use. I seem to recall many instances of the use of incorrect photos, and the earliest I heard of was in the The Guardian in the 1980s before the general decline in media quality and standards.

Yes, the current standards did arise out of a lot of questionable behaviour.

It's awfully tempting for a war photojournalist to pose the group of tearful women in front of the bombed-out building across town. Or for the celeb gossip reporter to collage together two photos without making it clear it's a collage. Or for the person colour-correcting a photo of a divisive figure to lighten or darken their skin.

And the resulting rules are complex and at times judgement-based, because posing subjects is allowed in some circumstances, collages are sometimes allowed, some colour adjustment is allowed, and so on.

Still, serious journalists aren't going to be illustrating their articles about US-Iran negotiations with chatgpt any time soon.

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Post by intrasight »

pluralmonad wrote: post #295
intrasight wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or just have a podcast so that you don't have the option to have images.

It bothers my brain when a longtime followed podcast changes their cover image. You conditioned my brain for years to a certain image and pattern and now you change it? How dare you!

It's so weird that they all seem to update at once - which makes me think that it's my podcast player that's periodically checking. But that sort of an opaque process for me since it's not my area of technology.
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