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Please do not add genAI images to punch up your writing. You might think that it adds a nice little bit of visual pizazz to your content-marketing piece, but what you’re actually doing is *making it look like content marketing* rather than a useful resource. To the extent that content marketing is an effective tactic, it is because you build trust with the customer by providing them valuable information. A genAI turd plopped on top of your writing is a signal that it will be worthless slop.

  • @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, but the point isn’t to look like a legit Jeopardy clue, it just has to not look generated. You can respect the height limit if you want, or break it.

    Your reply also wasn’t in the form of a question. No points.

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      12 months ago

      It’s extremely obvious because the lettering shadows have shadows themselves and they don’t match. It’s simultaneously trying to be the flat image and the CRT soft afterglow of the shadows at the same time, when in real life you’d only have one or the other. It’s also giving a headache.

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        02 months ago

        That isn’t extremely obvious though, especially with the JPEG compression. If you didn’t know to look, you wouldn’t have noticed it. No one scrutinizes Jeopardy text.

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          02 months ago

          It’s super obvious, I caught it immediately just scrolling the thread, I don’t even do graphic design or anything. You can just tell if you have ever seen a single episode of Jeopardy in your life.

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            02 months ago

            That’s a lot of things to infer off of just scrolling past a 512×768 JPEG. If the image was in another context and the text had been different, no one would have batted an eye.

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              02 months ago

              Perhaps, but the soft shadows still don’t match the text. It’s uncanny. An amateur designer would’ve gotten a better result on Photoshop in less time.

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                I wanna believe you, but the JPEG artifacts on an image that small make it extremely difficult to even notice the distortions you’re referring to, especially at a glance. You’ve made it obvious you’re replying in bad faith, so I’m gonna leave it here. Have a good one.