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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 Laurel1234 »

ModernMech wrote: post #374
Laurel1234 wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you show me one AI image with artistic value?

Yeah if you want recommendation of things I like, drop a contact and I'll send you some. But I don't really want to get into a public debate about taste in art, because that's all posting anything would come down to. It's a losing battle, because the bias is so strong you can post an actual Monet but say it was generated by AI, and people will come out to tell you how it's clearly not art: https://www.threads.com/@me…

Just post a link bro it's not rocket science.

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Post by tokioyoyo »

rsynnott wrote: post #376
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.

It seems a particularly bad idea for bars/restaurants because people are very, very sensitive to food that looks _wrong_. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an ai-generated food image that didn’t look offputting.

Very much of a survivorship bias. As of today, I don't think you can conclude if the images on UberEats/DoorDash are AI-generated or not. It's not 2023 anymore. Things have gone way past that now. I hate it as well, but I've seen AI-generated photos that I would've never guessed as AI from a quick scroll on a small screen.

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

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Post by ModernMech »

Otterly99 wrote: post #313
anotherlab wrote: post #73

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.

I think you should learn from the reaction of most people in this thread and avoid it (if your audience is mostly technical people) for the following reason. A. If it's unrelated, it doesn't add anything to the post except aesthetics. B. On the aesthetics dimension: I don't think people are very impressed by the AI aesthetic, and tend to be annoyed by it. C. It seems that most people now assume that AI-generated imag…

Alternatively, consider that the people who are so against this are posting here with great conviction, and everyone else who isn't against it just reading the blogs rather than writing on Hacker News.

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Post by tokioyoyo »

Havoc wrote: post #96
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 That's a wild stance. If you don't like what someone else made - AI assisted or not - you can just move on and not purposefully set out to publicly ruin them...

I'm fairly AI-pilled, as the cool kids say. But it would be fair for any AI-generated work to be labelled as such. The problem is, vast majority isn't doing it, because they know what the perception is like.

The question is, should we spend the same amount of time evaluating AI-gen work as non-AI-gen work. I would say no. In my opinion, AI-gen work should be evaluated by other AIs. Goes back to the whole "if you didn't put effort into creation, why should I put effort into evaluation" thing. Obviously it's not an all-or-nothing thing. But you get my point.

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Post by oliwarner »

kdheiwns wrote: post #366
oliwarner wrote: post #360

> at least you know for a fact you’re getting the thoughts of a real human being No, we don't. For all we know this whole blog is an agent larping as a neverLLMer. Your stance says nothing about who wrote what. Just as using images freely generated by ChatGPT for a PERSONAL blog post because the author liked it but couldn't express it themselves doesn't tell you anything about the quality of the post. It tells you th…

I've developed an internal heuristic that tells me people who think an AI image to fill some blank space in any way improves anything aren't saying anything of value. There's a strong likelihood they're just trying to promote some product or scam. I came to this conclusion after seeing 100% of sites with AI images plastered on them being scams and BS with no actual value. Meanwhile, a blog that's basic HTML and text…

How does your heuristic handle your qualitative and quantitative words here? If you land on a blog post with a single, pertinent illustration (from a LLM), do you assume the post, site and author are all robot trash and run away? Investigate the other posts before reading further?

The point of my caps, above was that I'm writing for me. If I think my post is improved by me prompting a LLM for an illustration, that's up to me. I'm not writing for your heuristic, I'm trying to express myself every way I can. The time where you find individuals untainted or unaided by these tools is over.

I'd try to just content by it's content rather than it's illustrations.

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Post by nemo »

iqbal1980 wrote: post #342

So people should stop expressing themselves, however they see fit so you can read their blog? Ok!

Using AI to generate content isn't expressing yourself. It's expressing non-human AI content that's actually not a part of your self - AI content is the opposite of self-expression, it's other-expression. That's why people dislike seeing it peddled as self-expression.

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

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Post by GMoromisato »

If you're writing a personal blog (as opposed to a company blog), you should not care what people think.

A blog is an expression of your own taste. Write about things that interest you. Write in a style that you like. Add whatever images you want. And don't let some random stranger on the internet influence your blog. Otherwise, it's not your blog anymore.

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

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Post by NichoPaolucci »

jmartrican wrote: post #215

Some content creators are too focussed on their work that they might not have noticed the debate going on online about AI-generated images and all they wanted was a cool image for their content. They might not have known that they walked into a hornet's nest.... but they will find out soon enough. Should they have gone down the alternative route, where they spend time and money hiring someone to do it... who will pro…

It’s not about using new technology, it’s about the signal of effort.

Blind copy-pasting an AI image anywhere is a poor signal of effort, because it was a deliberate decision by the author… “I didn’t do the work to make this look professional, but my hope is that people THINK it looks professional.”

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