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If I may be a bit of a curmudgeon for a moment: I've read some number of posts like this recently that had AI-generated art embedded to "break it up", and I've found that the effect is skim skim squint at AI image skim squint at AI image scroll to end

Partly this is because a fun game with AI images is to identify the weird things they do. They have an interesting effect where they look sooooort of okay if you don't actually look at them. In your post for instance, the first image has a wild not-actually-a-pteranodon at left, second image has twins at bottom-right but also is that a caveman partying with antlers on his head in the background?, third image -- what contraption is that wooly mammoth pulling, actually?

And, once the novelty of playing "Find Ten Things Wrong With This Picture" wears off, then the images are exactly equivalent to embedded stock photography from Shutterstock or whatever. Oh look, it's shiny happy people at computers in the middle of an otherwise interesting essay on the transformer architectures of large language models.

(I enjoyed the rest of the content of your post. Amazing how effectively these tools are becoming productivity multipliers for the people experimenting with them.)



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