I pay an illustrator for every illustration on The Consensus, and paid a graphic designer for the logo after doing a first version myself. AI artwork, let alone AI writing, is just not great for your image.

You can find an illustrator anywhere in the world for the budget you'd like to spend (The Consensus is bootstrapped, a shoe-string budget). Would love to stop seeing tech companies using AI illustrations.

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spacechild1 2 days ago | parent [-]

Unfortunately, it's not only big tech companies... but it's especially infuriating when it comes from a billion or trillion dollar company. As if they don't have the money to hire a professional illustrator.

For me there is almost nothing more grating than obvious AI illustrations. It makes it near impossible for me to take the content seriously. I'm wondering: do these people just have no taste? Or do they think nobody cares? Or they just don't care themselves?

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rhines 2 days ago | parent [-]

I wonder if it's like Sam Altman not using capitalization, and other people in tech following suite just to signal in-group status. Deliberately producing bad output just to show you're part of a certain subculture.

	▲	apercu 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I have a history of not using capitalization going back to the early 90's. Old UNIX habit. Had no idea it was a new "in-crowd" signal.