alt Hacker NewsI mean, it's a spectrum, surely...
What about stock photography, IMO as much as I personally hate "overcooked" AI-generated imagery, it doesn't annoy me that much more than stock photography does on blogs.
I do however use it as a gauge of "if the images are generated by AI, how much of the text content is?" though, so...
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sodapopcan • today at 12:46 PM
Yes, stock photography is also lame, but at least their creators gave permission. It's my dream that "AI" is going to make us look back and reconsider some of the pre-era slop we've accepted in the name of convenience. I doubt it, though.
It's not a specturm. It's quite simple; AI jpegs are not photography, because no photons were involved in the AI halucinations.