Why are you sick of AI images, but you're not about stock images ?
They've equally filled the web and articles for the last years.
At least, AI images feel more on point.
They've equally filled the web and articles for the last years.
At least, AI images feel more on point.
Often, the text will be good enough, or better (since then you do not need to download the picture, it does not take up space on the screen (or on a paper if printed out),e tc.)
Your visual system looks for detail, it's consistent with your world model but empty of meaning, it doesn't trigger your attention network, you can ignore it and keep going.
AI images do suffer from detail collapse - the longer you look at them, the less sense it makes. Look at the image in the linked post - the sculpture makes no sense, the code inscribed on it looks like real code - oh wait no it's not, the characters quickly blur into garbled scratches, and oh ? there's a smaller block of even more "meaningless" code nested into the first?
Your visual system looks for detail, it's inconsistent with your world model, so it triggers your attention network in search of the meaning behind it (things that are not consistent with our internal world model are of utmost importance to our attention), but there's none to be found. You've just wasted mental cycles on slop, whether you consciously realize it or not.
In either case shitty MSPaint drawings would be much better as they would express personality, and there'd only be the level of detail that their author judges useful, but that would require actual effort.
Both are bad. Just use text.