See other top HN article rn about "expertise is essential for using LLMs". Nobody is debating whether illustrators, graphic designers or marketers are going to

See other top HN article rn about "expertise is essential for using LLMs". Nobody is debating whether illustrators, graphic designers or marketers are going to use AI. In addition to being a thoroughly sailed ship, the sheer demand for constant content and image generation makes it a job skill at this point. TFA is about blogs written by people with non-graphic expertise, who think it's great to, e.g., punctuate every other point with a way-too-detailed picture of a panda bear coder orchestrating fleets of squirrel agents. (Yes I'm looking at you Steve Yegge.) Nobody needs to be abused with this crap, and it all has the same overpolished overdetailed look, the "it's too good to be drawn by the author but is obviously NOT drawn by anybody with any visual sense". It's not just blogs -- bands are now making these ridiculous "pro" fliers, food carts have stupid pictures of their owners on them -- but in blogs that ostensibly are written by humans for humans, AI images are worse than distracting and a very negative signal.