I'm sure this happens because my senses haven't been dulled down enough to just shrug and gloss over these, but the AI-generated filler image after the first full paragraph just jars me out of the reading groove and makes me just drop the article. It feels derisive.

How is this better than just grabbing a photo of an actual get out of jail free-card from somewhere?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Get_Out_of_Jail_Free...

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