Yeah agreed - Just as a future context I tend to close out of articles quickly if they have an AI generated image. Highly reccomend something like Unsplash or Comsos.so - They both have some brilliant visuals, especially public.work - cosmos.so/public-work
Even old archives are great to search for visuals and shows the passion that you've put in to the writing.
This is really helpful, thank you! This post was one of my first with relevant, 'real' images, and I really like how it came out relative to the generated stuff. Besides, I feel like image generation has lost its way since DALL-E got deprecated. I've bookmarked these resources!