Comment by isodev

2 years ago

The AI generated cover image was kind of distracting to be honest. If having a full-screen image to go with the post was so important, one would have contracted a designer or just purchased something cool.

The post was informative though.

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MOARDONGZPLZ  2 years ago

The image content and size is annoying, agreed, but I imagine that, like myself, they would go without an image if it meant contacting a designer and spending time negotiating rates, ideating on designs, and waiting on project completion. It takes seconds and is free to generate a neat image with AI that can be very additive to something like this, but unless you’re NY Times or WSJ doing a long form article, it’s probably unreasonable to expect anyone to get something explicitly designed and paid for in this context.

  • ggpsv  2 years ago

    I believe the parent was hinting at the other possibility: not use an image at all.

    When I see these AI-generated cover images in posts I'm left with a bad taste in my mouth. They look "ok" when glanced but pay more than a second of attention and they're terrible and uncanny.

    If you truly care about the image's place in relation to the post, you'd go through the process that you mention and most likely you will end with a chess board and piece set that make sense, as opposed to whatever the image in the OP actually represents.

    I agree with the folks behind iA Writer on this:

    > Average AI images drag down everything around them. An AI hero image is a comedian opening the show with a knock-knock joke. Good images enrich your article, bad images steal its soul.

    [0]: https://ia.net/topics/ai-art-is-the-new-stock-image

  • pavel_lishin  2 years ago

    > it’s probably unreasonable to expect anyone to get something explicitly designed and paid for in this context.

    Besides the obvious answer of "then don't use an image", they could also use a stock image.

  • isodev  2 years ago

    Well, in that case I'd say it's better to publish a post without a cover image. There are plenty of websites that offer the choices between high-quality, royalty-free images or make it easy to buy one.

  • wavemode  2 years ago

    It also takes seconds, and is free, to Google for copyright-free photographs.

    What do you think people were doing before Dall-E came along lmao

madeofpalk  2 years ago

in 2013 we had generic unsplash bokeh-rich images for blog posts. Now, we have generic AI generated images. There's not that much different. I agree - in both cases they're fairly distracting.

  • ghaff  2 years ago

    The common wisdom among a number of publications I've written for is that you need some sort of graphic, even if generic, mostly for reasons of social media sharing (and, these days, because a lot of blog templates assume a post has an image).

    Those publications usually had a contract with some provider of public domain or CC-licensed fairly generic graphics.

vinni2  2 years ago

I also wonder if in future search engines would rank pages containing AI generated images or content lower.