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This hasn’t been my wife’s experience at all. She manually writes all her content, but uses AI images as sizzlers for the scenes (fan fic for popular shows). Short of getting the actors together for a million bucks, she’d be hard pressed to make these scenes a reality. It’s also supposed to be aspirational, like “what if the tv cast got back together for another season hey?” I think the average person just doesn’t really notice.

She’s had to figure out where the line is though. She tried using ElevenLabs to dictate her scripts, thinking it’d make things more convenient for her fans, and that lost her subscribers because they seemingly disliked the more obvious use of AI.

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Manually written content with an AI teaser image is perfectly acceptable to most people, including technical audiences who dislike AI writing.

The teaser image isn’t the content. Most people consider it part of the web design or setting the tone for the article.

There’s a very vocal minority who will get turned off by AI anything right now, even when it’s not part of the main content. Some times a good blog post will land on the HN front page and it will collect complaints that the layout or web design looked too AI generated so those people didn’t read it. I don’t think it’s a big loss. Blogs have attracted a peanut gallery of picky critics forever.

> She’s had to figure out where the line is though. She tried using ElevenLabs to dictate her scripts, thinking it’d make things more convenient for her fans, and that lost her subscribers because they seemingly disliked the more obvious use of AI.

Using AI for the main content is a no-no. The actual content that they came for has to show signs of authenticity.

> I think the average person just doesn’t really notice.

Yes, this is what's insulting about it, the assumption that it won't be noticed.

People also confuse “didn’t notice” with “didn’t confront me about”.

People noticed, they just didn’t want cause a conflict over it.

Yes I don't really bother to call out AI images or writing, I tend to just block the domain and not look back.

Maybe a few strikes if the content is otherwise substantial, but it's a very easy and reliable smell so far.

AI generic blogspam "art" - as off-putting or worse than clipart or those weird flat characters that took over everything "corporate" a few years ago.

Actually using AI to make a shitpost image relevant to the text? Amusing, fun, worthwhile.

The bendy arm people

https://www.wired.com/story/corporate-memphis-design-tech/

Corporate Memphis! Thanks, I hate it.

Now there's AI Corporate Memphis.

TFA is not about fanfic, which seems like a natural fit for illustration, but about technical blogs that really don't need it and are instead stuffed with distractingly fancy slop images.

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