points by xnorswap 4 days ago | 0 comments
Can people not earnestly cut-corners with genAI imagery?
[–] DaSHacka 4 days ago
[–] Xirdus 3 days ago
> And, in the case of executives they have ONE job (to lead by communicating), outsourcing such a basic soft-skill focused role to AI is just pathetic.
Weren't executives always outsourcing writing to their (human) assistants?
[–] Terr_ 4 days ago
I think the disgust aspect might be from a kind of uncanny-valley.
Generative art and text-slop have lots of surface features which lead us to expect quality or effort, and then we're betrayed when we look closer. Our natural reaction to betrayal is to shun the actors behind it.
Lazily-placed text in an otherwise blank word document that gets printed and stapled haphazardly to a posterboard is infinitely preferable.
I feel similar about LLM-generated text, though that's even more egregious. If I have to get one more claude-written email from the company CEO I'm going postal. You have a slight excuse with art as most people couldn't draw to save their lives (including myself), but to write is literally to think. And, in the case of executives they have ONE job (to lead by communicating), outsourcing such a basic soft-skill focused role to AI is just pathetic.