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by bombcar 39 days ago
I think the AI Dino is fine. Just don’t claim it as anything but AI.
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Note that you don't think its awesome. The best case scenario for someone normal is for them to be totally neutral. To think "its fine." The worst case is they think less of you and anything associated.

That is not a worthwhile risk - and thats the thing I am super confused more people don't have an intuitive sense of.

I think the AI dino is fine.

I'm not aware of anyone judging my taste in art and thinking less of me. If they judge, they do so silently.

I want to highlight a comment someone made elsewhere in the thread.

> I recently wrote a technical post on my blog where I thought it would be kind of funny to add some genAI of me doing stuff, some people told me they stopped reading immediately once they saw those images… it’s making me reconsider honestly :-/

It was one of the many here that got flagged. Boy howdy this got spicy. But this is the situation I am talking about. Some might think its fine, but a lot of people won't so its usually not worth it unless you want to narrow your audience.

Thinking more about my "Dino is fine" - I realized I was taking it as a "reaction image" appropriate to a forum thread or twitter or text replies.

If you're "taking the time" to write something, adding an obvious AI image (without calling it out as such) is worse than having nothing.

I need to meditate on why I feel this way.