AI Thumbnails?

I just don't like the way how it generates the images, stealing from countless photographers and artists with not an ounce of credit. Especially when there are sites like WikiCommons with many free images which are also licensable.

But hey, perhaps I am exaggerating the situation.

Where are said comments? I want to see the arguments made to decide who is in the right

I don’t think there are actual arguments from those who commented on that quiz. It seems to mostly stem from this natural propensity to dislike generative AI that seems to exist.

I don’t think there’s too much of a problem, especially if you’re having trouble finding open source photos that work as thumbnails. Recently I’ve been creating a lot by hand but that’s too much work so I’ve used AI a handful of times too.

Honestly, I’d just keep ignoring these people and maybe even go as far as blocking them if they’re gonna be this obnoxious about it. Arguing with them is probably gonna end up being a colossal waste of time.

I honestly think that it's not a problem.

I've read the comments under the US Cities Quiz and I don't understand the point. Additionally, if you make a quiz about clicking cities on a map, you won't find such pictures on the internet, so quickly generating one is the best solution in some cases.

I agree - it's a quiz website, not the Tate Modern. People need to get a grip

Moral arguments aside, I just think they look like crap. It's not that hard to find an image you're looking for off Wikipedia or Pixabay or whatever else.

IA is just stealing for my point of view.

If you doesn't find content that fit what you want, just doesn't make it.

I see someone argue "Oh it's just for thumbnails, not a big deal" .. Steal is a big deal whatever the importance of generated object goal.

But if you doesn't consider this as stealing, yes there is no problem to use it.

About environment, your argument looks like Whataboutism, that's not because we do overconsumption with youtube that it's okay to do same or worse with AI Gen.

Hope I am understable because not very confortable in english.

all of the above

Personally, I find AI use to be lazy and it gives the impression that people don't really care about the quality of the final product. It's a fairly trivial task to find an appropriate thumbnail for a US cities quiz on Wikimedia or Pixabay, and if you wanted something a little more specific then it probably wouldn't be super difficult to whip up something decent in photoshop. Your use of AI was limited only to the thumbnail which is a pretty minor part of the quiz so I don't think it reflects too poorly on you as a whole, but it leaves a bad first impression *especially* when people were seeing it on the front page outside the context of a quiz. People can have sort of a kneejerk reaction to AI when it comes to environmental and plagiarism concerns, and while I don't necessarily agree with everything they say I do dislike it on principle. Ultimately it's up to you whether you want to use it or not, but I think you can get better than AI.

Its often more (needless) effort for a worse result, like the Czar Nick one that one quiz had.

+ general criticisms of ai, intellectual shrinkage or whatnot, and environment concerns