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I'm once again asking for FOSS website to not use AI slop.
Provide them the art for free, on-demand, and they might stop doing it.
does the art (be it ai or made by human) adds to the content or is it superfluous? If true, then why even bother with ai slop as a cover image?
If it adds to the content, then it is worth something. So make someone worth something.
If it doesn't matter, add a random screenshot of kernel code.
The "worth something" doesn't even have to be financial.
Find a nice image that someone has made which is linux-related, and ask if you can use it & credit the author.
If no, try someone else.
If that's too much work, use a random screenshot of kernel code ...
There are artists out there that have already freely shared some really cool art, that would love to be able to point to publications that they have permitted to use it.
If you have some budget, pay them. Value the time involved.
Just not AI filler BS. I'm not going to see some filler AI art and go "oh yeh, I'm going to use that for X/Y/Z".
But if I see some cool art, I'm inclined to commission something for an actual use case
This is the way