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Thoughts on AI generated illustrations for articles (self.fuck_ai)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by gofsckyourself to c/fuck_ai

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Recently, I saw a post on Lemmy of an article that piqued my interest, at least enough to try to validate the information in it. When I followed the link, I was greeted with a clearly AI generated image (it showed trump with an extra finger).

I immediately lost trust in the article and made a comment regarding that. (Link)

But the reaction to this was surprising to me. I got a response stating that the author has a background of being an established writer and reporter, as well as received a lot of downvotes. However, no one responded to my points on the use of AI.

My thoughts are that if you are making money on something, then you need to avoid AI when possible and reasonable.

What's going on here? Am I wrong and this is somehow an acceptable use of AI?

[Edit] side note of something that that just occurred to me: don't go to that thread to manipulate the votes or start ""brigading"" against it for the AI. I just wanted to discuss it here. Thanks.

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[–] gofsckyourself 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sure, I would somewhat agree to "among the least offensive" but it's not entirely free of it. Particularly if you are an established writer/researcher, why would you stoop to that level and associate yourself with the use of AI in your work at all? You should easily have the means to pay for an illustration either from stock or an artist, so you're willing to add slop in your work? For what? Convenience?

[–] FlyingSquid 0 points 2 days ago

I don't disagree, I just think of everything regarding AI out there, there are better uses of time in terms of complaints/criticism.