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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

does the art (be it ai or made by human) adds to the content or is it superfluous? If true, then why even bother with ai slop as a cover image?

[–] dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s mainly for Open Graph (the thumbnail you see when you share the website on social media), and it’s good for SEO or engagement in general.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There are plenty of already existing images for this they could reuse. For example:

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

a banner for the website as a whole is the obvious choice imo

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

I saw one on another article here that was just a stock image of some penguins, I rather liked that.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago

The art of clipart composition seems to be a lost art :(

[–] drkt_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You've set up a bit of a word-trap because that 'true' can cover for either of your cases. I can't know what you mean.

If it adds nothing, why does it matter? If it adds something, why do you care?
What are you actually upset about?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am upset that ai imagery was used. That it was used for something utterly pointless like a cover image makes this even more egregious.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

It also just flies in the face of open-source, to use what was likely a closed-source image genAI to produce the image.