Ha! Fair. Guilty. 🤖 What do you think of this theory: Part of the reason people hate AI in is because of the sense of implicit deception. It's just a database, but it feels like it's pretending to be people. And we hate pretend people from our souls. It's just a database, but it apes us and that naturally rubs us the wrong way. Too human-ish and yet nobody is home. Other reasons too, for sure, but what do you think of that about the kind of visceral reaction? Kind of an uncanny valley thing...

the fact that long form articles are expected to have a cover image makes people prone to generate one

Maybe, if think a lot of it is just that it is a terrible aesthetic decision, and that in itself points to a larger red flag. Eg: 'if this dev is making au h an awful aesthetic decision, what does this say about the project in general?' But yes I think more generally AI images are now pretty much associates with the deception of especially the more vulnerable and gullible, scams and what not. Which no one likes.

I'm thinking especially of amethyst. The default banner for people who have not put a profile banner is ai slop of the worst order. This is a terrible look But no one seemingly cares at at amethyst about this decision. It's like they don't want blew people on nostr lol

For me, I hate the database because it drastically isolates the people who produce the data from the people who use it. The kind of feedback and backchannels that come from two human beings interacting with eachother and eachother's work is the very thing that helps people to improve and is the only reason good data exists in the first place. A human trained on an artwork will often engage with the artist and that artwork. An AI web scraper never will. People joke about "thank you"s directed at AIs wasting large amounts of energy, but the real waste is that none of those thank-yous will trickle backward towards the people who most deserve them.