This is a good piece that is undermined somewhat by the AI imagery. My goal isn't to just complain about AI, but I've been reflecting on how my own mental proce

This is a good piece that is undermined somewhat by the AI imagery. My goal isn't to just complain about AI, but I've been reflecting on how my own mental process unfolded while reading this. > Note: I used AI to create this image rather than pull one from another site without permission. I don't have kids, and while I've seen pickup lines from time to time, I have very little first-hand experience with them. So my brain reacts to the image: - Is this image a realistic representation? - If it is, I have no first-hand knowledge to verify it - If it's not, I have no way to know without going and looking for images myself - If it is, it's undermining the content by representing something real with something fake Artwork/illustrations/visualizations are often critical when communicating via text. But I think that when someone is writing about a factual matter - a real phenomenon that is occurring regularly - using fake imagery is just the wrong choice.