[isoprophlex]

Rant incoming. I know it's bad form to critique anything but the content... but I wish the story wasn't padded with those bland GenAI eyesores of an image. It's a dumb kneejerk reaction I observe in myself, but the presence of generated graphics anywhere immediately turn me off.

GenAI padded blog post? Guess your content isn't interesting enough. GenAI album cover? Artist must be equally lazy at making music. GenAI graphics on some flyer someone hands me? Please, could have just slapped nothing but text on there & let your content, whatever it is, do the talking.

I know it's there to "make things pop" or whatever but I'm so put off by the ubiquitous blandness, the samey high contrasts, subtle artifacts... Milking peoples' attention is the new smoking, or at least it should be, IMO. Especially if it's done in the most aggravatingly bland style, that of the GenAI image generator.

[skywhopper]

Pretty clear to me the article text itself was largely LLM generated as well. Incredibly repetitive and built on the same basic points over and over. List-heavy. There is a good, if not particularly insightful, article idea here, but this is a very poor version of it.

[dingnuts]

> Please, could have just slapped nothing but text on there & let your content, whatever it is, do the talking.

Maybe this explains some of the success of brat by Charli xcx last summer

[glimshe]

Most of the negative reactions to GenAI graphical content is for images used "as is". I've seen artists using GenAI content who process, compose and enhance what comes out of the AI for truly striking results.

We'll soon have artists whose skills will be more similar to editors than content generators. People who will be good at selecting the good parts of AI content while cutting out the bad ones.

[conartist6]

Still turns me off. If you can't do art, stop fronting like you can.

Art is about having something to say. If your concern in writing is style over content, that says to me your goal is to hack my brain not help me think