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I'm tired of the AI-generated art that writers here put in their posts and comments. Some might not be able to relate, but the way my brain works, I have to exert focus for a few seconds to suppress the effects of having seen the image before I can continue to engage with the writer's words. It is quite mentally effortful.
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I agree. The problem with AI-generated images is that any image you can generate with a prompt like "robot looking at chessboard" is going to contain, almost by definition, no more information than that prompt did, but it takes a lot longer than reading the prompt to look at the image and ascertain that it contains no information and is just AI-generated imagery added 'to look nice'. This is particularly jarring on a site like LW2 where, for better or worse, images are rarely present and usually highly-informative and dense with information when present.
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I like them sometimes, but a lot of them are IMO not executed well-enough. I did like them in Owen CB's latest posts.
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I also find them irksome for some reason. They feel like pollution. Like AI generated websites in my Google results.
An exception was the ghost cartoon here. The AI spelling errors added to the humor, similar to the bad spelling of lolcats.