That makes sense but it may be hard to get the image you want with a chicken in it with your camera considering chickens are so uncooperative and it's hard to have them pose with props for example. So
@GodLovesU's ai generated pic of a chicken in front of money would be very difficult to do with real chickens and not everyone is very skilled with drawing so even if someone tried their best a drawing may not be worthy of being the cover image of an article. You see, even I would not be able to draw a cover image, unless it involved a single bird lol. I see what you mean though, an ai-generated image may lead you to suspect that the article itself is ai-generated. But for me personally I don't think it's sus if it's the cover image for an article on BYC, but if it was a weird pop-up ad on the bottom of a website then I would not click on it.
and again, I think a picture of a blurry chicken butt racing away from your hand holding a dollar bill is more reputable, sincere, and interesting than the soulless-and-suspicious ai generated pic of a perfectly posed glowing chicken next to stacks of glowing dollar bills.
“Worthy of being a cover”?????
You can also put a feather next to a pile of coins, to represent the same thing. A doodle of a chicken next to a dollar sign. Be creative.
Ask a friend who draws better than you if they’ll make an illustration you can use, and give them credit in your article.
Heck, if one of the bullet points in that money-making article was “sell them for meat” the cover image could be a frozen chicken thigh! Meat cant run away!
We are a bunch of amateurs who love chickens.
It’s ridiculous to think we’re all expert photographers or illustrators.
PRETENDING to be a good photographer, to get that “perfect” picture using AI is just as much of a falsehood to me as pretending to be a veterinarian in an article about chicken food.
Let photographers have perfect photos. If that’s not you, that’s ok!
Show what YOU made. Show what YOUR creativity invented. Show me what’s going on in YOUR mind.
Be earnest and genuine, and human instead of artificially “perfect”.
Using ai just tells me you can’t even be bothered to TRY.
Why would I read an article that someone couldn’t be bothered to write?
Why would I admire a photo someone couldn’t be bothered to make?
It’s slop.
