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Mostly unrelated, but I dislike how normalized AI art is.

I don't think it's unrelated at all. I saw the same picture and just closed the tab right away. Why should I read this article, the whole thing might be written by an LLM.

I think adding a AI image to filter out readers who think that way might have been intentional.

I certainly consider it a good idea, now that it has come to mind.

The neo-Luddite filter

Could you also tag it “AI enhanced” or some such for us as well? Thanks.

nope. i don't use AI to write anything. I will just put an obviously AI image in the article to give those who make assumptions a reason to bail.

and it will work very well.

What’s wrong with using AI to write something?

If anything, the ubiquity of style he used makes it into a deliberate meme. It's a little joke.

Your comment reminds me of people complaining about how using emoji in communications/text has become normalized. Generating images with AI is pretty fun and seems like an appropriate thing to do for a personal blog. As in, this is the exact sort of place where it's most appropriate.

It's not like this person was ever going to pay someone to make a cartoon drawing so nobody lost their livelihood over it. Seems like a harmless visual identifier (that helps you remember if you read the article if you stumble across it again later).

Is it really such a bad thing when people use generative AI for fun or for their hobbies? This isn't the New York Times.

same. Would have prefered a lo-fi stick figure drawn on a napkin. The cartoon Max detracts from the rest of article, which is a good read.

Dislike it or not, its normalised as is everything else that is useful.

It’s not really useful in most instances.

Useful? I concur with a sibling comment. I stopped reading and closed the article as soon as I saw it.

This happened to me too (almost subconsciously I might add). I'm actually not anti-AI at all, maybe a bit uninterested in AI-made art, since I don't fully see much use for it except for generating fun pictures of Golden Retriever dogs in silly situations, but this imitation-Ghibli art style is probably one of the least pleasing things to my eye that people love making. It's so round and without edge, it's colors are washed out in a very non-offensive way, and also it does not even look like the source material. I wouldn't be so aggrieved by it, I think, if there wasn't that wave where everyone and their dog was making pictures in that style. Sorry, just a small rant tangentially related to the article, which is fine. :)

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