alt Hacker NewsGet used to it. This is the future we've created for ourselves. It's only going to get worse as people everywhere try to use AI to distinguish themselves. Expect everyone to be an artist, everyone to be an author, everyone to be a programmer. Slop. It's what's for dinner.
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dragonwriter • today at 9:03 AM
This is just lazy AI use as a replacement for lazy stock image use. The details of exactly how it sucks at its job while providing something that fills a checkbox for someone who has no concern for quality are somewhat different, but the basic failure is the same.
The problem isn’t the use of AI. It’s the lack of editorial effort to use AI well.
Modern image generation models can handle text fine. Or the author could have left those artefacts blank and added the text themselves in “post production”