A friend recommended a newsletter for executives in tech and today's issue had a link to a blog post advising tech leaders on how to get better at asking questions. It had this... illustration...
I am confident the author had no idea how much this graphic torpedoed my trust in them. I am realizing that often people who use AI art don't understand how art works
Ha, exactly the problem with the AI art in the above post:
“The human in the loop isn’t just being asked to spot mistakes — they’re being actively deceived. The AI isn’t merely wrong, it’s constructing a subtle ‘what’s wrong with this picture’-style puzzle.”
@vaurora No matter whether I know the author or what my experience based expectations were - whenever I see this kind of generated “art” accompanying an article… I can’t help myself but deduct credibility points from what I read. Happens automatically. It’s as if they were speaking to me while wearing their underpants as a hat.
@nblr You are not alone. From what I gather from my timeline this seems to be an approach that quite a few people at the intersection of tech and art seem to take. Myself included. @vaurora
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I can imagine that (depending on where an article is published, of course) sometimes such illustrations aren't provided by the author but added by whoever runs the publication (newsletter, website, whatever).
Similar to how misleading headlines in newspapers are usually not the fault of the articles author, but are written by someone else.
@vaurora Right? Images for the sake of having images. I'm very much not a fan of this pollution and waste of space.
On the one hand I wonder if anyone did A/B testing whether this improves responses, and on the other I'm afraid it works.
@larsmb I know for a while that there was at least a belief that an image would improve SEO... what I hate about this image is that it had the form of information and flow charts and data - in a blog post about finding information and data - but it contains only nonsense. I am so angry
@vaurora Maybe an image is actually useful content, many people are visual.
But even on here, I've noticed people illustrating their posts with GenAI imagery and taking up way more space in my feed than justified.
I find that attention grab very obnoxious and malicious.
(I immediately mute/unfollow, regardless of who it is.)
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