[jszymborski]

It won't be long before people realize that having poor AI images looks worse than having no images, in the same way that having a reaction GIF every other paragraph of a blog post fell out of style or deeply generic and unillustrative clip art or stock photos of puzzle pieces or featureless-white-3D-figure-with-hard-hat-holding-question-mark.

I sympathize with the motivations behind it, but it does look cruddy and cheapens the end result.

[aaronbrethorst]

Guy_pointing_up_saying_this.gif

[teddyh]

<https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this>

[PolygonSheep]

I'm at the point now where if there's an AI slop image at the top, I'll just hit the back button.