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I absolutely hate AI illustrations on the top of blog posts. I'd rather see nothing.

True, but you need to play the game of including the slop to create the share cards for social media link previews.

A strange game - the only winning move is not to play.

Of blogger feels a strong need to add slop anywhere on their article, then their blog isn't worth my time.

Yeah the low effort / gratuitous ones (either AI or stock) are jarring.

I sometimes put up the hero image on my blog posts if I feel it makes sense, for example: https://blog.senko.net/learn-ai (stock photo, ai-generated or none if I don't have an idea for a visualization that adds to the content)

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