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I use gen-AI to produce images daily, but honestly the infographics are 99% terrible. LinkedIn is filled with them now.

by wiether 8mo ago

smcleod 8mo ago
To be fair it hasn't made LinkedIn any worse than it already was.
- nurettin 8mo ago
  To be fair, it is hard to make LinkedIn any worse.
  - embedding-shape 8mo ago
    I was gonna make a joke about "Wish granted, now Microsoft owns it" but then I remembered that they already do. Reality sometimes makes better jokes than what we can come up with.
  - aenis 8mo ago
    And at the same time, its arguably the least toxic of all social networks. Yes, cringeworthy but at least not addictive! Its like facebook all those years ago, i can IM friends from highschool without having to pay any attention to the feed.
    - aaroninsf 8mo ago
      You may be on to something there! Perhaps the solution to breaking the destruction of society via engagementmaxxing may be to make things cringeworthy!
    - protocolture 8mo ago
      >And at the same time, its arguably the least toxic of all social networks. Its "non toxic" insofar as people refuse to risk discussing controversial non employment related topics. Its super toxic insofar as "10 ways to herd your HR cattle to the productivity slaughterhouse" is just an average, uncontroversial self promo article.
      - aenis 8mo ago
        I am not sure its super toxic. Does anyone take this stuff seriously? Its a bunch of people virtue signalling, writing cringeworthy pieces on their ground breaking ideas on leveraging AI, stuff like this can't possibly be read by anyone with an above-room-temperature IQ, no? LinkedIn can reliably be used as a high functioning moron detector. I mean, if there are people doom scrolling linkedin, they need help.
        nurettin 8mo ago
        It is not trauma inducingly bad, but thoroughly disappointing. I went there a couple of weeks ago by accident and they were discussing how they wrote papers with the help of AI and how you should "at least make sure that the reference section is valid".
usefulposter 8mo ago
Correct. Much like the pointless ASCII diagrams in GitHub readmes (big rectangle with bullet points flows to another...), the diagrams are cognitive slurry. See Gas Town for non-Qwen examples of how bad it can get: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746045 (Not commenting on the other results of this model outside of diagramming.)
- viraptor 8mo ago
  > cognitive slurry Thank you for this phrase. I don't think that bad diagrams are limited to the AI in any way and this perfectly describes all "this didn't make things any clearer" cases.
viraptor 8mo ago
Informatics are as bad as the author allows though. There's few people who could make or even describe a good infographic, so that's what we see in the results too.
mdrzn 8mo ago
Infographics and full presentations are a NanoBananaPro exclusive so far.
- RationPhantoms 8mo ago
  You should see some of the work from their PaperBanana papers. Really solid.

I use gen-AI to produce images daily, but honestly the infographics are 99% terrible. LinkedIn is filled with them now.

by wiether 8mo ago

I use gen-AI to produce images daily, but honestly the infographics are 99% terrible. LinkedIn is filled with them now.

smcleod 8mo ago

To be fair it hasn't made LinkedIn any worse than it already was.

nurettin 8mo ago
To be fair, it is hard to make LinkedIn any worse.
- embedding-shape 8mo ago
  I was gonna make a joke about "Wish granted, now Microsoft owns it" but then I remembered that they already do. Reality sometimes makes better jokes than what we can come up with.
- aenis 8mo ago
  And at the same time, its arguably the least toxic of all social networks. Yes, cringeworthy but at least not addictive! Its like facebook all those years ago, i can IM friends from highschool without having to pay any attention to the feed.
  - aaroninsf 8mo ago
    You may be on to something there! Perhaps the solution to breaking the destruction of society via engagementmaxxing may be to make things cringeworthy!
  - protocolture 8mo ago
    >And at the same time, its arguably the least toxic of all social networks. Its "non toxic" insofar as people refuse to risk discussing controversial non employment related topics. Its super toxic insofar as "10 ways to herd your HR cattle to the productivity slaughterhouse" is just an average, uncontroversial self promo article.
    - aenis 8mo ago
      I am not sure its super toxic. Does anyone take this stuff seriously? Its a bunch of people virtue signalling, writing cringeworthy pieces on their ground breaking ideas on leveraging AI, stuff like this can't possibly be read by anyone with an above-room-temperature IQ, no? LinkedIn can reliably be used as a high functioning moron detector. I mean, if there are people doom scrolling linkedin, they need help.
      - nurettin 8mo ago
        It is not trauma inducingly bad, but thoroughly disappointing. I went there a couple of weeks ago by accident and they were discussing how they wrote papers with the help of AI and how you should "at least make sure that the reference section is valid".

usefulposter 8mo ago

Correct. Much like the pointless ASCII diagrams in GitHub readmes (big rectangle with bullet points flows to another...), the diagrams are cognitive slurry. See Gas Town for non-Qwen examples of how bad it can get: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746045 (Not commenting on the other results of this model outside of diagramming.)

viraptor 8mo ago
> cognitive slurry Thank you for this phrase. I don't think that bad diagrams are limited to the AI in any way and this perfectly describes all "this didn't make things any clearer" cases.

viraptor 8mo ago

Informatics are as bad as the author allows though. There's few people who could make or even describe a good infographic, so that's what we see in the results too.

mdrzn 8mo ago

Infographics and full presentations are a NanoBananaPro exclusive so far.

RationPhantoms 8mo ago
You should see some of the work from their PaperBanana papers. Really solid.