[holliplex]

I would describe myself as pretty AI-positive in software engineering, and even in technical writing, but something about seeing diagrams that are clearly generated by Nano Banana Pro immediately makes me stop reading. Weird!

[iamcalledrob]

Same.

I think I've unintentionally trained myself to notice (and tune out) both AI illustrations and AI writing.

At a deep instinctual level, knowing that someone hasn't spent much time or effort creating the content makes me not want to reciprocate with time or effort.

I've realised that my brain literally tunes out AI illustrations, much as it does with ad banners.

Perhaps since they're easy to generate, I encounter illustration more -- it's no longer a signal of quality.

[bartvk]

That's not the only thing clearly generated. "Some looming issues", "some thorny issues", it's full of these weird AI sayings. The whole thing feels weirdly written.

[lelanthran]

> The whole thing feels weirdly written

I keep repeating this: AI written prose lives in an uncanney valley that is both clearly grammatically correct but still weirdly off.

Why do we think that the AI generated code is any better?

I described AI-generated code as feeling very "alien" to me, but I'm not sure that that is the correct term.

[holliplex]

I think it's mostly just that we are very good at picking up on patterns, and it's extremely noticeable that half the internet has started writing in the same voice with the same tics. If Claude were quietly posting away in 2017 I don't think anyone would think twice about its output.

[Ferret7446]

We're well past the point where humans can reliably identify AI generated content. Sure, you might often correctly identify AI content, but part of that is due to how much AI content there is; you can call everything AI generated and still have a high ratio of correctness. Meanwhile, I guarantee there's a lot of AI content that you're failing to notice.

Rather than using the AI bogeyman, why not analyze things as-is? If it's good or bad, does it matter if it's AI or human? Or are you in denial about some existential fear?

[outime]

To me, the something in this case is the mangled text and the weird "lighting" in some of the icons. Not the worst I've seen but it definitely puts you off.

[BoredPositron]

Depends making an ascii diagram or one in cali and adding flair with nano seems fine. You do the logic nano adds the flavor.

[Traubenfuchs]

It's all wonky with "hand drawn letters" and slightly off with low fidelity and repetitive usage of graphical primitives.

Low quality trash that is offensive to be given to read because the author didn't actually give enough shits to spend a few minutes creating the graphics by hand.

I don't want to work with people like "Jim Yagmin", people that consider this kind of output acceptable. This immediately makes me expect sub par "good enough" work with no attention to detail. Just slop it at the wall and see what sticks!