The story of Max, a real programmer

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

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.

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

It’s not really useful in most instances.

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

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.

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.

This happened to me too (almost subconsciously I might add). I'm actually not anti-AI at all, maybe a bit uninterested in AI-made art, since I don't fully see much use for it except for generating fun pictures of Golden Retriever dogs in silly situations, but this imitation-Ghibli art style is probably one of the least pleasing things to my eye that people love making. It's so round and without edge, it's colors are washed out in a very non-offensive way, and also it does not even look like the source material. I wouldn't be so aggrieved by it, I think, if there wasn't that wave where everyone and their dog was making pictures in that style. Sorry, just a small rant tangentially related to the article, which is fine. :)

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

The neo-Luddite filter

Could you also tag it “AI enhanced” or some such for us as well? Thanks.

nope. i don't use AI to write anything. I will just put an obviously AI image in the article to give those who make assumptions a reason to bail.

and it will work very well.

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.

What’s wrong with using AI to write something?