• Ech@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I simply can’t comprehend people who’s first thought, even before using something that already exists, is to turn to llms and image gens for a worse result. It’s so fucking stupid.

    • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s a bot, it’s probably generating images from articles as soon as they publish. Probably so reddit can pump engagement stats for the board.

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        10 months ago

        Still stupid. If it can scrape the article, it can scrape the photos.

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          10 months ago

          It’s just an extension of rewriting, they want to host “original” content over reposts, but rarely care about accuracy.

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          10 months ago

          And then it posts a picture of a piece of plastic and engagement is lower.

          This is a high tech low tech solution

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      10 months ago

      Because there’s no people behind it. Probably a perl script that scrapes news and feeds it into an LLM to create click bait articles.