• dparticiple@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    I am at risk of becoming Lemmy’s resident curmudgeon with my protestations against clickbait headlines, and now a distaste for lazy and unappealing generative AI images in articles, which disincentivize reading the material. Not the poster’s fault, of course.

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      14 days ago

      I thought the same thing; it’s a very visible cost-cutting signal. How do we know they haven’t replaced the editor and writer with AI too?

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        12 days ago

        Well put. Since we’ve co-opted this comment section with meta-commentary, I’ll also say that since LLMs came on the scene, I feel as if my sixth sense for AI text slop has become very refined; I can usually identify generative text within a few sentences, and stop reading.