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

submitted 3 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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

AI just screams "lazy" and "lack of care". If they don't care that every article they put out has a completely unnecessary AI image in it, what guarantee do I have they care about any of the content on their website?

If they can't afford an image then it's better to have none than to give money to a company that will DDOS their servers with web-scrappers.

In my eyes, AI = Complete disregard for quality control.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Agreed. It shows a lack of standards which you want from people informing you about reality in a trustworthy and accurate way.