• Stefen Auris@pawb.social
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    If you’re not careful it’s easy to make that mistake and they did the right thing by deleting it

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      Especially if they’re using outside talent. Hiring a graphical artist for article images is common.

      Some of those artists will obviously be using AI to some extent now. There is a skill curve to getting AI generators to provide useful outputs. Whether that’s to generate a unique base to work from, or to fill an environment quickly, etc.

      Some artists use it sparingly to add to their traditional skills, others use it as a crutch, and some people are just liars trying to make a quick buck by submitting pure AI slop. If it is used for assistance minimally, as it should for something like this, it will be hard to see since it would be used in places that aren’t the focus anyway.

      It’s up to the end customer to determine what amount of AI assistance they’re willing to accept, and zero is a completely valid option. And that’s what should be submitted. In this modern AI art era that’s guaranteed to be part of their graphical contracts.

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        Im amazed the people that recently bought the Onion have actually been very cool. That’s insanely rare these days. This is just one more example of them doing the right thing.

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      True, a lot of sources are mixing in more and more auto-generated stuff.

  • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I mean good on them for being fully transparent about their mistake and fixing it. 1000x more respectable than any “real” news network.

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      For those who don’t know, “ail” (loosely prenounced “A-I” with a French accent) is the french name for garlic. Thus the pun.

  • Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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    “Monster Devastated To See Film Depicting Things He Told Guillermo Del Toro In Confidence.”

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      Futurism writing about the onion, so… yes, no, maybe, sorta, almost, but not quite? It’s clearly an edge case.

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    Not not the Onion… (surreal!)

    On a more serious note, that’s disappointing.

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      Eh, sounds like they grabbed a stock photo to edit into the main image without seeing that it was AI. It’s not like they produced it despite their commitment not to, and they pulled it and apologized when it was pointed out.

      I don’t really feel disappointment that they picked the wrong stock photo.

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        Yeah, that stock photo site is well-known for not reliably filtering out AI generated stock photos despite having a check box specifically for that purpose.