HN 投票：您對部落格文章中的 AI 生成圖片有何看法？

Over 2025 I noticed more and more submissions with obviously AI generated cover images, usually customised to the content of the blog post. I'm not entirely sure if that's because I've got better at spotting AI images or if they've just become much more accessible to the casual blogger.

Without wanting to open the massive can of worms around if hero images are even necessary or what should go on them, I'm curious to know if you've noticed the same trend and if it affects your perception of the article before you read it?

Sure, it's cute to see a Studio Ghibli re-enactment of your blog post but then I'm always left wondering if I'm going to spend more time reading the article than the author took to write it. It kind of ruins my enjoyment of the indieweb if I end up looking suspiciously at dashes. Could this have been a twitter thread with a few photos and the raw prompts instead?

All that being said, I've been trying to work out if this is another thing I should let go. With how outrage-fuelled social media is these days I've been working on being less judgemental of others if it doesn't directly affect me.

20 years ago you could have perfectly civil conversations on forums with people with usernames xXx_ShadowFox69_xXx and typically the contents of their messages was more important than how cringy their signature was. Maybe this is just an unfortunate part of the modern web I should look past, even if I don't like it?

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