For a big professional site sure... I just do twice a week blogs and thought a snazzy Ai art topper just flavored the idea. I could go back to pulling from my old camera roll.. But I could never afford to pay for art per blog entry (for something that brings no revenue)
I gotcha. It’s just the new thing to use AI and it’s easier to be lazy I guess. Or some people see it as being the trendy thing. Because it is still so much on the learning curve it’s annoyingly obvious.
Maybe I’ll get slammed for this, but here goes. I’m writing about the yet to be sexy topic of media reform and media literacy from a pro-democracy perspective. I have no money to spend on images and sometimes it is hard to find an appropriate one (that I would gladly credit.) 1/3
For instance, I have pinned to my site an article asking people to call their senators about the PRESS Act. To drive home the point I wanted a photo of a reporter being arrested. When you google images of that, no one is wearing a big sign that says press, they just look like regular arrestees. 2/3
Okay, more diplomatically: If you're using an AI-generated image, you're telling me you don't want to pay or at least credit artists/photographers. You want to put some terms in a glowing box and get a prize. That tells me that your intellectual output isn't going to be very interesting.
Not to kiss my own butt but I refuse to use ChatGPT for anything. Otter (audio transcription) is the only generative text program I use. I have never used AI to generate text and I never will. All my words/typos are organically grown.
my broad theory of the case is that ChatGPT is good when you are bad at something, or short of professional-quality. so it's helped me quite a bit with writing code, eg.
but if you're a professional in a field, and particularly any remotely creative field, it's not remotely fit for purpose
Amen. I write for a niche cookbook website (https://eatyourbooks.com), where I pledged to not use AI images or content on our blog. Just out of curiosity I asked AI to "enhance" my writing on a recent piece. It did not add anything of value.
fyi: design schools have incorporate AI into their curriculum. So creators are using AI, including photographers (who use software to swap out skies, etc.).
Exactly. There’s a difference between using Adobe’s previous machine-learning features and their generative art tools. For one thing, you can run the older features on your own machine without needing to access Adobe’s servers. They also won’t mimic other artists’ work, or create an entire image 4 U
Something that people underrate is that almost the entire history of art is available in online images you can just legally go out and grab and use. But people underrate it because we are uneducated Philistines who know nothing about art.
This actually illustrates my point— I don’t want to restrict my attention to writers who also happen to be art historians. Plenty of people are just good at writing; not everyone needs to be a perfectly well-rounded polymath!
My point is that maybe they are serious about their writing, not the image that must accompany it in order to get any social media clicks. Don’t dismiss the former just because they chose to save effort on the latter.
sure but there's a *vast* difference between "a paintbrush tool that intelligently snaps to an existing line" and "computer, make me a convincing oil painting of a tree"
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Not to kiss my own butt but I refuse to use ChatGPT for anything. Otter (audio transcription) is the only generative text program I use. I have never used AI to generate text and I never will. All my words/typos are organically grown.
but if you're a professional in a field, and particularly any remotely creative field, it's not remotely fit for purpose
People use AI because they are too lazy to do the (minimal) work to find it, or they want to pretend plugging prompts in = creative effort.
Either way, it's a signal they aren't serious about their craft; and I'm going to close the tab.
I don’t know how many of us there actually are, but I’m not clicking on an article with an AI generated header.
Not everyone can afford to pay. Why not use my idea, my creativity, and an AI buddy to help me?
I can use Creative Commons photos, but the supply of those are limited and also no one gets paid.
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