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by gwern 38 days ago
I didn't enjoy it. It flunks my criteria for good AI images, because there is no there there: https://gwern.net/blog/2025/good-ai-samples It wasted my thoughts as I stared at it, trying to learn about the author and 'X uses this' and thinking about how moleskin notebooks related to personal computing etc... only to realize I had been lied to and my time wasted, as he took advantage of my good faith - the good faith I extend to a fellow hacker, that their images will be meaningful and worth reading.

Just as their words are presumed to be meaningful and worth reading... but slightly less so every day, I fear.

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> I didn't enjoy it.

Then it wasn't for you. No big whoop.

> It wasted my thoughts as I stared at it,

I think we have arrived at the kernel of the problem. :-)

The rest of this comment is left as an exercise for the student.

> Then it wasn't for you. No big whoop.

Ah yes. I remember this in Penny Arcade: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/24/the-adventures...