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by rpgwaiter 617 days ago
Not OP, but it’s extremely easy to tell if an article uses AI images.

Are there vague images padding the article for SEO purposes?

If so, is there attribution to an artist? If they contain images and don’t attribute, I avoid the website. Either they use AI to make SEO bait, or they steal artwork. I’ll avoid in either case.

AI text is much harder to detect, not sure of a good way to avoid it at the moment.
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rafram 617 days ago
Lack of attribution doesn’t tell you anything. If they’re licensing their images from a stock photo site, attribution likely isn’t required.
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rpgwaiter 617 days ago
Hadn’t thought about that, you make a good point. However in that case the author didn’t feel it necessary to explicitly say the image is not AI generated, which means they likely share very different views about AI artwork and I’ll probably avoid.

Even without that caveat, if they feel it beneficial to pay for stock photos for an article I’m probably good giving it a pass. Most major stock media companies are buying fully into AI generation anyways, and I can’t think of too many cases where stock images really add anything to an article aside from adding to the page size by an order of magnitude.

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rafram 616 days ago
Generally speaking, the human brain likes pretty pictures, and we're more likely to be engaged by an article if it has a pretty picture. Text-only sites don't draw as many eyeballs. Sad but true!
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gruez 617 days ago
>If so, is there attribution to an artist? If they contain images and don’t attribute, I avoid the website. Either they use AI to make SEO bait, or they steal artwork. I’ll avoid in either case.

I'm not sure why you think every use of AI generated images is "SEO bait". I'm sure some (most?) are, but it's perfectly plausible a well written article uses AI art in place of a generic image off unsplash or whatever.

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SoftTalker 617 days ago
> I'm not sure why you think every use of AI generated images is "SEO bait"

Most of the internet is SEO bait. It’s the safe default assumption.

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chrisjj 617 days ago
> If they contain images and don’t attribute, I avoid the website.

And if the images have AI-generated attributions?

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