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by WA 1314 days ago
Why do you devalue this course with shitty AI-generated images? They give off a horror vibe and since the details are all wrong, I get the impression that details don't matter in your course. But in coding, it's all about the details (edge cases).
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This is actually something we're not super sure about ourselves yet. I think AI art is quite interesting and has a lot of potential for use cases like this course (where we can affordably create hundreds of highly specific illustrations). Of course, the tradeoff is that you end up with illustrations that give off an uncanny vibe, for example the face of the monkey in our hero.

My greatest fear is to make the course too generic when using stock art images. Do you know a (low-budget) way of getting many interesting illustrations?