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The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast

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250 points lewq | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 14:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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sourcepluck ◴[14 Nov 24 16:23 UTC] No.42137760[source]▶
I feel like I see this comment fairly often these days, but nonetheless, perhaps we need to keep making it - the AI generated image there is so poor, and so off-putting. Does anyone like them? I am turned off whenever I see someone has used one on a post, with very few exceptions.

Is it just me? Why are people using them? I feel like objectively they look like fake garbage, but obviously that must be my subjective biases, because people keep using them.

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1. auggierose ◴[14 Nov 24 17:20 UTC] No.42138526[source]▶
I think AI images can be very nice, I like to use them myself. I don't use images I don't personally like very much. So if you don't like them, it is not because, AI, it is because your taste and my taste don't match. Or maybe you would like them, if you didn't have a bias against AI. What I love about AI images is that you can often generate very much the thing you want. The only better alternative would be to hire an actual human to do that work, and the difference in price here is huge, of course.

It is like standing in front of a Zara, and wondering why people are in that shop, and not in the Versace shop across town. Surely, if you cannot afford Versace, you rather walk naked?