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A lot of blog templates, as well as tools that syndicate blog content, require some sort of image. They'll take the first image they encounter, no matter what i

A lot of blog templates, as well as tools that syndicate blog content, require some sort of image. They'll take the first image they encounter, no matter what it is. If you want to avoid it being some sort of sidebar glyph, or the page looking wonky, you have to supply an image. What image would possible have fit this article? And so we end up with AI-generated filler. That doesn't make it desirable, but I hope it helps to explain it.

zzzeek 4y ago
Assuming the blogger has a phone with a camera: 1. Go outside 2. Look up! 3. Take a picture ! Now you have a hi res photo of the very beautiful sky of Planet Earth . For free !
- pwinnski 4y ago
  Are you saying you would prefer all blog posts to be header by the same undifferentiated photo of a blue sky? I'm not quite getting what you're saying here. I mean, if a person is only ever going to write a single blog post, then yes, absolutely, post a personal photo of something beautiful. Why not? But if a person might post more than one blog post, then presumably there's some motivation to tying each (required) photo to the post in question in some way, even if tangential, right?
  - zzzeek 4y ago
    perhaps you're being a bit pedantic here? You are well aware that one can iterate on the "take a picture of anything, every time you make a blog post!" theme, you don't need to compel me to spend my time telling you that. There's surely more productive ways to spend one's time.
    - hnfong 4y ago
      I don't see it being pedantic at all. > "take a picture of anything, every time you make a blog post!" If you're saying one can actually find things relevant to my blog posts by doing that, I'd love to hear more. Because it doesn't seem plausible to me. Using AI images isn't really as easy as one may think. It takes a couple minutes to generate a large image, and sometimes the AI messes up. A couple iterations later, you've already used 20 minutes. If I could generate better images with a camera pointing at random things around me, please enlighten me on that. PS: I don't think anyone is compelling you to reply -- you chose to do so.

zzzeek 4y ago

Assuming the blogger has a phone with a camera: 1. Go outside 2. Look up! 3. Take a picture ! Now you have a hi res photo of the very beautiful sky of Planet Earth . For free !

pwinnski 4y ago
Are you saying you would prefer all blog posts to be header by the same undifferentiated photo of a blue sky? I'm not quite getting what you're saying here. I mean, if a person is only ever going to write a single blog post, then yes, absolutely, post a personal photo of something beautiful. Why not? But if a person might post more than one blog post, then presumably there's some motivation to tying each (required) photo to the post in question in some way, even if tangential, right?
- zzzeek 4y ago
  perhaps you're being a bit pedantic here? You are well aware that one can iterate on the "take a picture of anything, every time you make a blog post!" theme, you don't need to compel me to spend my time telling you that. There's surely more productive ways to spend one's time.
  - hnfong 4y ago
    I don't see it being pedantic at all. > "take a picture of anything, every time you make a blog post!" If you're saying one can actually find things relevant to my blog posts by doing that, I'd love to hear more. Because it doesn't seem plausible to me. Using AI images isn't really as easy as one may think. It takes a couple minutes to generate a large image, and sometimes the AI messes up. A couple iterations later, you've already used 20 minutes. If I could generate better images with a camera pointing at random things around me, please enlighten me on that. PS: I don't think anyone is compelling you to reply -- you chose to do so.