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I don't think using AI-generated images is bad. I also don't think using an LLM to help write an article is necessarily bad, either. They're both just tools. Y
by edanm 2y ago
I don't think using AI-generated images is bad. I also don't think using an LLM to help write an article is necessarily bad, either. They're both just tools.
You're equating using these tools with low-effort. And that's often true. But not always.
In our own blog/newsletter (about data and AI engineering), we spend a ton of effort doing a lot of the development work and the research work that goes into posts. Often the post is summarizing an open-source project we've released, sometimes it's summarizing research we've done, etc.
But we're not skilled artists. Nor are we skilled copywriters. And many of us don't speak English as a first language, either. So we use AI to generate images, and we use LLMs to help sharpen the writing on the blog post.
I don't think that makes our work low effort.
- exsomet 2y agoDevils advocate: Given a hundred articles (in say, a social media feed) and a finite amount of time and cognitive capacity, how should one decide which articles to read? If the presentation is AI generated images, and genuinely good content is otherwise “sharpened” with common AI fingerprint phrases in the excerpts and opening titles, what aspect would stop someone from equating it with other “bad” AI generated content and skipping it?
- edanm 2y agoWell, what would stop someone equating it with human-produced bad content? It's not like this is a uniquely AI phenomenon, "bad" content existed three years ago too. I think you should mostly just not use superficial characteristics like "it includes AI generated art" as much of a signal, and judge it the same way you'd judge anything else - is it from a publication you trust? Is the subject matter of interest? Does the headline and/or skimming the description + first few sentences make it seem interesting? All of those are better signals of whether it's worth reading something than superficial characteristics. After all, "don't judge a book by its cover" is a pretty common saying for a reason.
- rsynnott 2y agoI mean, consider not having images, then? Having no images is, IMO, better than having terrible filler images. Most blog posts don’t have images, and the world goes on.