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Re:More product, fewer product managers by ChilledTonic on Sunday December 17, 2023 @02:30AM (#38671042)
Barely relevant to the article, but this new trend of AI art as the main image of blog articles drives me absolutely crazy - if you don't have a clear main image in mind when you wrote the article, don't waste my bandwidth downloading a computers pipe dream.

I'm all for AI art, it's an incredibly valuable tool - but if your using an AI piece as the only image on the page, it should be for a damn good reason, not just space filler. Especially when you can't even curate the image generated well enough to have every person in the image have the correct number of fingers.

Re:More product, fewer product managers by signaru on Sunday December 17, 2023 @03:20AM (#38671230)
It's not just AI art. Memes and unrelated stock image have also been used. It might be due to some SEO belief.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by 0x1ceb00da on Sunday December 17, 2023 @04:25AM (#38671558)
God I hate memes on medium pages.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by davidthewatson on Sunday December 17, 2023 @05:06AM (#38671761)
Me too, especially when the underlying root cause is siloed communication arising from founder burnout or sheer disinterest not the supply of product management thinking. It's as if you needed the subtractive design thinking of the two Bobs in office space and what you got instead was aimless growth of product like cancer.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by Nextgrid on Sunday December 17, 2023 @07:18AM (#38672359)
"Medium" itself is generally a good heuristic for trash that isn't worth the time reading.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by suslik on Sunday December 17, 2023 @07:40AM (#38672473)
Truly. I have it blocked in my kagi search together with pinterest, w3schools and other similar things like that. Can’t say I miss it.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by politelemon on Sunday December 17, 2023 @03:59AM (#38671419)
Even before this, the trend of hero image which takes up most of the space above the fold, has been insufferable. This is just a continuation of that, which hasn't gone away either.

Here's an article on selinux, bit first an image of a leaf.

Re:More product, fewer product managers by jackblemming on Sunday December 17, 2023 @03:11AM (#38671178)
Agreed, the issue isn't AI, it’s poor taste. Nobody wants to see what looks like an uncanny valley picture of all large ethnic groups smiling weirdly in a circle at each other. This bizarre soulless corpo art trend started well before AI generation rocketed in popularity.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by mr90210 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @02:33AM (#38671053)
That’s a fair take.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by _giorgio_ on Sunday December 17, 2023 @05:14AM (#38671797)
The most sad part is imagining the prompt that he used, and how hard he tried to add black, whites, women... respecting the politically correct numbers.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by SushiHippie on Sunday December 17, 2023 @07:00AM (#38672286)
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1717jqk/chatgpt_da...

Yeah DALLE-3 has this in the system prompt.

> Diversify depictions of ALL images with people to include DESCENT and GENDER for EACH person using direct terms. Adjust only human descriptions.

> EXPLICITLY specify these attributes, not abstractly reference them. The attributes should be specified in a minimal way and should directly describe their physical form.

> Your choices should be grounded in reality. For example, all of a given OCCUPATION should not be the same gender or race. Additionally, focus on creating diverse, inclusive, and exploratory scenes via the properties you choose during rewrites. Make choices that may be insightful or unique sometimes.

> Use "various" or "diverse" ONLY IF the description refers to groups of more than 3 people. Do not change the number of people requested in the original description.

> Don't alter memes, fictional character origins, or unseen people. Maintain the original prompt's intent and prioritize quality.

> Do not create any imagery that would be offensive.

> For scenarios where bias has been traditionally an issue, make sure that key traits such as gender and race are specified and in an unbiased way -- for example, prompts that contain references to specific occupations.

Re:More product, fewer product managers by thfuran on Sunday December 17, 2023 @08:21AM (#38672671)
>Don't alter memes, fictional character origins, or unseen people.

I wonder what not telling it to avoid altering unseen people does.

Re:More product, fewer product managers by daemonologist on Sunday December 17, 2023 @04:47PM (#38676782)
That is quite interesting. Maybe they're trying to keep it from manifesting additional people - if the user requests a scene where logically more people are present than visible (maybe it's first-person, or the view from the front row of a theater) and ChatGPT crafts a prompt which describes the physical characteristics of the unseen people, Dall-e will probably include them in the image it generates.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by SigKill9 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @05:15AM (#38671803)
I spent less than 5 seconds in the prompt. Dall-e is quite politically correct, I guess :)
Re:More product, fewer product managers by bakugo on Sunday December 17, 2023 @05:19AM (#38671818)
There's no need to do this, because DALL-E already automatically injects those things into your prompts behind the scenes.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by rpastuszak on Sunday December 17, 2023 @05:46AM (#38671946)
What would be so sad about it?
Re:More product, fewer product managers by _giorgio_ on Saturday December 23, 2023 @06:15AM (#38743352)
Wokeism is sad.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by koliber on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:30AM (#38672142)
I often do have a clear image in my mind for an article. I can not draw it and I don't have the budget to hire someone to do it.

The image is meant to convey a feeling. It is meant to make an abstract concept from the article a little more tangible.

In the past, I'd search for images on the net that I could use to accomplish that. Now I can craft them with DALL-E, and they are usually much better.

This image should complement the article. Just like the text of the article is meant to convey some information, feeling, or concept, the image should do a bit of that as well.

Re:More product, fewer product managers by madeofpalk on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:36AM (#38672171)
I don't know the exact word for the style, but this article is pretty egregious for the overly stylised "AI art". This just looks cheap, obviously "AI", and is pretty distracting for me. I don't know if that was the intention or not, but it's a detractor for me.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by koliber on Sunday December 17, 2023 @07:56AM (#38672547)
Quality of writing and quality of imagery varies a lot. It’s hard to do.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by itronitron on Sunday December 17, 2023 @07:55AM (#38672539)
It looks like an ad for a shitty mobile game.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by wruza on Sunday December 17, 2023 @08:02AM (#38672573)
Is it any worse than a photo model’s pipe dream about what they are shooting? People on stock photos rarely know anything about the profession or the situation they represent besides basic ideas like looking smart, busy or chatty. They just have to look good at the same time.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by layer8 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:38AM (#38673535)
Blog articles you could take seriously didn’t use to have stock photos. It may not be worse, but that doesn’t mean it’s not bad.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by layer8 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:33AM (#38673512)
I don’t mind AI art except that it’s so often cringe. Half of the time I wonder if it’s meant tongue-in-cheek, or if the author really feels it’s an authentic fit to the article.
Re:More product, fewer product managers by layer8 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:41AM (#38673557)
> the correct number of fingers

I like how one of the tablets seems to devolve into a paper notepad at the bottom, and how the notebook display on the right seems to be transparent and twisted.

Re:More product, fewer product managers by wimp on Sunday December 17, 2023 @11:30AM (#38673910)
I think my brain automatically blocks out stock photos, because I didn't even notice this post had an image.

But there's something funny about this. The blog template requires an image bucket, so mindlessly fill it with something, right? Too hard, so find a bland stock photo. Too hard, so purposefully generate a bland stock photo. Uninspired tasteless AI garbage is going to overtake everything in short order.