It's frustrating because Archive.is/today keeps doing this. Some sort of fight with Cloudflare, who cares about the details - it sucks. A few weeks ago it suddenly started working again on Firefox, and it was great! I wake up today and try the Matt Levine post and... back to the fake infinite looping.
Sorry, but on HN we don't allow top-level archive links unless it's the only way to read the article. Otherwise it's important for the original domain to show at the top. Archive links are welcome in the comments of course.
It will probably go that way due to friction and cost but not a great development.
AI generated images in a news article or long form essay are incredibly distracting and do not add value. Not a fan of experiencing the uncanny valley when I just want to read text.
As opposed to real pictures that have nothing to do with the article like we have now? Right now the pictures in the vast majority of news articles, including most in print, are actively misleading. One hopes, with AI pictures they'll go through the trouble of using a prompt related to the article ...
> AI generated images in a news article or long form essay are incredibly distracting
I think most people will or can get used to them pretty fast. And if you've seen the images that Midjourney v6 can produce, some of these are already beyond the uncanny valley.
> While the background of the V5.1 image looked like Hogwarts, the V6 image has a tasteful, blurred background of hefty-looking lawbooks. If this image was in the brochure for a law school, we’d probably feel compelled to go there.
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> In fact, that’s exactly what I’ve discovered in my own experiments with using Midjourney V6 images in advertising campaigns. Midjourney’s aspirational images of people convert better than images of real people. Customers can’t get enough of them.
I mean, it's definitely better - at least the hands have the right number of fingers. However, these don't quite strike me as realistic photos, but rather as high-quality renderings. Also, in the lawyer picture, the foreground looks inappropriately blurred - it looks like it has a narrow depth of field, but the hands would almost never be out of focus in a photo like this. The background looks more like a stylized image of our of focus library shelves than what actual out of focus shelves would look. For filler stock photos, these might do, but I believe they would make your website look cheap
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 10.0 ms ] threadAI generated images in a news article or long form essay are incredibly distracting and do not add value. Not a fan of experiencing the uncanny valley when I just want to read text.
I think most people will or can get used to them pretty fast. And if you've seen the images that Midjourney v6 can produce, some of these are already beyond the uncanny valley.
Maybe it's just the novelty, but I enjoy the relevant but slightly odd pictures along with the text.
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It's fine to post archive links in the comments, but not at the top level, unless of course the article really doesn't exist on the web anymore.
* other than https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring