Haha wow you weren’t kidding. That image is so bad that it looks like it was generated using 3 year old models.
replyThe computer screen I can forgive, but if they author genuinely doesn’t have access to modern image generation tools then they could have at least loaded that image up in GIMP, Paint.NET or even just MS Paint, and added the text themselves.
It won't be long before people realize that having poor AI images looks worse than having no images, in the same way that having a reaction GIF every other paragraph of a blog post fell out of style or deeply generic and unillustrative clip art or stock photos of puzzle pieces or featureless-white-3D-figure-with-hard-hat-holding-question-mark.
replyI sympathize with the motivations behind it, but it does look cruddy and cheapens the end result.
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replyMICROSOFT MARL was definitely my all-time favorite product from Microsoft.
replyI enjoyed programming |fsuAI Bact1lon|, but I only got started with version 5.
replyhahaha. IIRC Microsoft MARL is good friends with Microsoft BLOB.
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replyThe little-known predecessor to the Xbox and Surface, except for landscape architecture.
replyThat computer (and chonky-boy floppy disk) look so unlike any real computer from back in the day that it honestly makes me question if the author knows anything about what that era was like.
replyMy first impression was that the text style is dismayingly like either an AI wrote most of it or (to be charitable) the author’s writing has been heavily influenced by the current generation of LLM output. So the image style goes perfectly with it.
replyThicc floppy disk.
replyThe "Oomerd" button is probably the debugger by the sound of it?
I'm scared of the floppy disk used to load Visual Baction
replyThese AI images are an absolute plague these days. I’m glad more people think they’re genuinely awful. To me they’re absolutely disgusting. I think I’d honestly prefer Macromedia Flash ads over this.
replyGet used to it. This is the future we've created for ourselves. It's only going to get worse as people everywhere try to use AI to distinguish themselves. Expect everyone to be an artist, everyone to be an author, everyone to be a programmer. Slop. It's what's for dinner.
replyThe problem isn’t the use of AI. It’s the lack of editorial effort to use AI well.
replyModern image generation models can handle text fine. Or the author could have left those artefacts blank and added the text themselves in “post production”
The problem is the use of AI. It’s a reliable indicator that the author doesn’t actually care about the quality of the work, so I shouldn’t bother to read the text.
replyThis is just lazy AI use as a replacement for lazy stock image use. The details of exactly how it sucks at its job while providing something that fills a checkbox for someone who has no concern for quality are somewhat different, but the basic failure is the same.
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