Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash

Re:Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash by pavel_lishin on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:34PM (#43271950)

Going to pivot away from piling on the author for their writing style, to instead pile on the author for using one of the shittiest AI-generated images I've seen in awhile. Nightmare fuel faces.

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Re:Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash by thrance on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:37PM (#43271995)

Seriously, I quit any post that begins with a shitty irrelevant AI image. I really wonder what reasoning could possibly lead to one thinking "yeah, this will definitely improve my article".

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Re:Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash by MichaelZuo on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @04:53PM (#43273115)

I’m beginning to think the lumpy intelligence theory is true… that if someone is way above average in some area they must also be below average in some other area(s).

The only exceptions being literal super-geniuses.

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Re:Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash by HeyLaughingBoy on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @05:02PM (#43273259)

Yeah, but it's so obviously fake that it's not bad :-)

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Re:Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash by o11c on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @07:09PM (#43274520)

I didn't think it was "obviously fake" (unlike, say, the recent Chicago gambling one) at first glance. I had to zoom in to see the horrors.

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Re:Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash by tptacek on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:09PM (#43274049)

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash by Kelvin506 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:31PM (#43274255)

IMHO it's not entirely tangential. The use of AI images in an article goes to the credibility of the author. That is:

- if they don't recognize the ethical problem with such images, what other ethical oversights are they making?

- if they do recognize the ethical problems but choose to use such images anyway, what other knowingly-unethical behaviours do they do?

For someone claiming to do journalism, both questions apply directly to their integrity as a journalist.

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Re:Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash by tptacek on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:33PM (#43274275)

Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash by joe8756438 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:31PM (#43274256)

idk, i think it’s as worth mentioning as the writing style, which a lot of the comments are about. and i think they’re fair — don’t mind the style myself

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