Post #3247580

2025-10-06 11:07 UTC

@geospacedman@mastodon.social there is such a tendency here on Mastofon to shout BAAD as soon as AI is involved. To your question: it depends. I have seen so many bad slides generated by humans, that I would prefer good AI generated slides. But: the science behind them has to be good! Are we going to talks to be entertained by human made slides, or hear about good science?

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@geospacedman@mastodon.social 2025-10-06 11:19

@RMKrug@hachyderm.io Crappy AI imagery (aka "AI imagery") is triggering. I saw one last week that had "GEODRAPHY" on it. Plus all these images are derived from stolen work. Go to unsplash.com or similar if you want free stuff and credit or pay the artist if you want. One speaker even gave us the knowing "Oh yeah another crappy AI image for you haha" schtick.

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@tomw@mastodon.social 2025-10-06 12:19

@RMKrug@hachyderm.io @geospacedman@mastodon.social AI imagery is a signifier that a similar level of low effort went into the rest. "High effort presentation, low effort imagery" is a category that exists in theory but very rarely in practice.

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@vegetablegremlin@jorts.horse 2025-10-06 13:55

@RMKrug@hachyderm.io @geospacedman@mastodon.social might have to do with AI being shit

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