Funnily enough, I feel pretty similar about AI-generated images by now. I’ve always struck by how people stick huge useless images on top of their blogposts, and other people want to read such articles more?? But now with AI generated images this has multiplied to a point that’s just frustrating—it means more time spent scrolling, and it evokes in me the feeling of someone trying to (and failing to) set an æsthetic atmosphere for a post and then convincing me through that atmosphere, instead of providing arguments or evidence.
I have seen this being done well, especially in some of Joseph Carlsmith’s posts, in which he uses a lot of images of old paintings, real photographs etc. I always thought of myself as having no taste, but now seeing other people sticking the same-flavored AI images on top of their posts makes me reconsider. (And I notice that there’s a clear difference in beauty between /r/museum and /r/Art.)
I think the splash images are >95th percentile of AI generated images in posts in beauty, especially as they still carry some of the Midjourney v1-v3 vibe, which was much more gritty and earnest (if not realistic) than the current outputs.
I really like some of the images people have used for sequences, e.g. here, here, here and here. Wikimedia has tons of creative commons images as well which I’d use if I were more into that.
Funnily enough, I feel pretty similar about AI-generated images by now. I’ve always struck by how people stick huge useless images on top of their blogposts, and other people want to read such articles more?? But now with AI generated images this has multiplied to a point that’s just frustrating—it means more time spent scrolling, and it evokes in me the feeling of someone trying to (and failing to) set an æsthetic atmosphere for a post and then convincing me through that atmosphere, instead of providing arguments or evidence.
I have seen this being done well, especially in some of Joseph Carlsmith’s posts, in which he uses a lot of images of old paintings, real photographs etc. I always thought of myself as having no taste, but now seeing other people sticking the same-flavored AI images on top of their posts makes me reconsider. (And I notice that there’s a clear difference in beauty between /r/museum and /r/Art.)
I agree. I realise the irony of this given that I worked on the big splash pages for the review winner posts.
I think the splash images are >95th percentile of AI generated images in posts in beauty, especially as they still carry some of the Midjourney v1-v3 vibe, which was much more gritty and earnest (if not realistic) than the current outputs.
I really like some of the images people have used for sequences, e.g. here, here, here and here. Wikimedia has tons of creative commons images as well which I’d use if I were more into that.