[13hunteo]

Mostly unrelated, but I dislike how normalized AI art is.

[ancarda]

I don't think it's unrelated at all. I saw the same picture and just closed the tab right away. Why should I read this article, the whole thing might be written by an LLM.

[naikrovek]

I think adding a AI image to filter out readers who think that way might have been intentional.

I certainly consider it a good idea, now that it has come to mind.

[navane]

If anything, the ubiquity of style he used makes it into a deliberate meme. It's a little joke.

[riskable]

Your comment reminds me of people complaining about how using emoji in communications/text has become normalized. Generating images with AI is pretty fun and seems like an appropriate thing to do for a personal blog. As in, this is the exact sort of place where it's most appropriate.

It's not like this person was ever going to pay someone to make a cartoon drawing so nobody lost their livelihood over it. Seems like a harmless visual identifier (that helps you remember if you read the article if you stumble across it again later).

Is it really such a bad thing when people use generative AI for fun or for their hobbies? This isn't the New York Times.

[tudorizer]

same. Would have prefered a lo-fi stick figure drawn on a napkin. The cartoon Max detracts from the rest of article, which is a good read.

[mapcars]

Dislike it or not, its normalised as is everything else that is useful.

[layer8]

It’s not really useful in most instances.

[csomar]

Useful? I concur with a sibling comment. I stopped reading and closed the article as soon as I saw it.