People Hate AI Art

人们讨厌 AI 艺术

by: Ethan McCue 作者：Ethan McCue

There’s a vivid mental image I have in my head of a T-Rex giving a thumbs up. So I had ChatGPT generate that for me. If your initial reaction to reading that and seeing that is some variation of “ughhh” or rolling your eyes or “fuck this guy” congrats. You are normal. If it wasn’t I cannot stress to you enough that you are an outlier. 我脑海中有一个生动的画面：一只霸王龙竖起大拇指。于是我让 ChatGPT 为我生成了这张图。如果你读到这里并看到那张图后的第一反应是“呃……”、“翻白眼”或者“去他的”，恭喜你，你很正常。如果你的反应不是这样，我必须郑重地告诉你，你是个异类。

Whenever you pick key art for a presentation or blog, your business, or whatever - if you use AI art you give a clear signal that you have low social literacy. You immediately associate yourself with a huge bundle of negative emotions because people, largely, hate this shit. The game theory on this is astoundingly clear. The best case scenario is that your audience doesn’t mind. The worst, and common-case, scenario is that they think less of you. Nobody sane looks at that and goes “wow, they must have spent such a long time prompting.” 无论你是为演示文稿、博客、商业项目还是其他任何东西挑选主图，如果你使用 AI 艺术，你就在向外界发出一个明确的信号：你的社交素养很低。你立刻将自己与一大堆负面情绪联系在了一起，因为人们在很大程度上讨厌这玩意儿。从博弈论的角度来看，这一点非常清楚：最好的情况是你的受众并不介意；而最坏且最常见的情况是，他们会因此看轻你。没有一个神智正常的人会看着 AI 生成的图感叹：“哇，他们一定花了很多时间写提示词吧。”

Here are some easy alternatives. 以下是一些简单的替代方案。

Alternative 1: Lazy photoshop 替代方案 1：懒人 Photoshop Here I’ve taken a photo of a T-Rex from the Jurassic Park Wiki and used https://jspaint.app to very poorly edit on a thumbs up emoji. I’m sure I could have found a public domain rendering of a dinosaur, but if we cared about intellectual property AI wouldn’t be on the table regardless. And again to stress the point - people will look upon this much more favorably. 我从《侏罗纪公园》维基百科上找了一张霸王龙的照片，并使用 https://jspaint.app 非常拙劣地贴上了一个大拇指表情符号。我相信我本可以找到一张公有领域的恐龙渲染图，但如果我们真的在意知识产权，AI 根本就不会被考虑。再次强调一点——人们对这种做法的观感会好得多。

Alternative 2: Doodle 替代方案 2：涂鸦 This one speaks for itself. Pull out your colored pencils, your markers, your watercolors. Draw something, and take a photo with your phone. Now I drew this one, but do you comprehend how much it improves people’s perception of you if you can say “my 6-year-old niece drew this?” If you have access to a child make use of that. 这个方案不言自明。拿出你的彩色铅笔、马克笔或水彩笔，画点什么，然后用手机拍下来。这张图是我画的，但你明白吗？如果你能说“这是我 6 岁的侄女画的”，人们对你的印象会提升多少？如果你身边有孩子，请利用这一点。

Alternative 3: Commission Art 替代方案 3：委托创作 I write about software, I post in software spaces. I must assume that some significant fraction of those reading this are software professionals. Do you have any idea how negatively it reflects on you as a person if you have a six-figure job but won’t shell out some cash to a starving artist? I commissioned https://bsky.app/profile/dsoart.com for this one, and I am more than pleased. You can too. Or any number of relatively affordable professionals. 我撰写关于软件的文章，并在软件社区发布。我假设阅读本文的人中有相当一部分是软件专业人士。如果你拿着六位数的薪水，却不愿掏点钱给那些饥肠辘辘的艺术家，你知不知道这会让你显得多么糟糕？我为这篇文章委托了 https://bsky.app/profile/dsoart.com 进行创作，我非常满意。你也可以这样做，或者找其他许多价格相对亲民的专业人士。

Alternative 4: Be a grifter 替代方案 4：做一个骗子 People with minor cases of major brain damage. Those who have drunk too long from the leaden hose of LinkedIn. The kind of person who was really into NFTs in 2022. These people make perfect marks. Using AI images is an effective way to filter out people with critical thinking skills. If you are running a grift it can be a valuable piece of your toolkit. Much like your classic “Nigerian prince” scams, the kind of people who see that junk and still engage are your most cash of cows. If that’s what you want to do, if that’s who you want to be - godspeed, loser. 那些大脑有轻微损伤的人，那些长期沉迷于 LinkedIn 毒鸡汤的人，那些在 2022 年热衷于 NFT 的人——这些人是完美的受骗对象。使用 AI 图片是过滤掉具备批判性思维能力人群的有效手段。如果你在搞诈骗，这会是你工具箱里很有价值的一环。就像经典的“尼日利亚王子”骗局一样，那些看到垃圾信息还会上钩的人，就是你最肥的“摇钱树”。如果这就是你想做的，如果这就是你想成为的人——祝你好运，失败者。