Open Contest Official BYC Article Writing Contest - #24

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Entry 1

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/another-remedy-for-slow-impacted-crop-problems.79871/

 

[TokoBird]

Any time I see an AI photo representing an article, I assume the contents are also going to be untrustworthy slop generated by AI.

ai-generated photos have me backpedaling out of the article and blocking the blog who made it.

I’d rather see a blurry, poorly-lit phone pic of someone’s grimy barn than a shiny AI of a fake bird. At least the blurry pic shows a real person used their own experience and knowledge to make the article.

Yall can run your blog contest however you want, but I’m not reading those sus articles. :/

 

[GodLovesU]

Any time I see an AI photo representing an article, I assume the contents are also going to be untrustworthy slop generated by AI.

ai-generated photos have me backpedaling out of the article and blocking the blog who made it.

I’d rather see a blurry, poorly-lit phone pic of someone’s grimy barn than a shiny AI of a fake bird. At least the blurry pic shows a real person used their own experience and knowledge to make the article.

Yall can run your blog contest however you want, but I’m not reading those sus articles. :/

I AI generate images for my articles but I write the actual content on my own. I can’t speak for others, but I don’t AI generate and post content as my own.

 

[talkinboutchickens]

Any time I see an AI photo representing an article, I assume the contents are also going to be untrustworthy slop generated by AI.

ai-generated photos have me backpedaling out of the article and blocking the blog who made it.

I’d rather see a blurry, poorly-lit phone pic of someone’s grimy barn than a shiny AI of a fake bird. At least the blurry pic shows a real person used their own experience and knowledge to make the article.

Yall can run your blog contest however you want, but I’m not reading those sus articles. :/

I can see that

 

[TokoBird]

I AI generate images for my articles but I write the actual content on my own. I can’t speak for others, but I don’t AI generate and post content as my own.

You can say that, and I believe you.
But using an ai photo is, to me, akin to typing like a “Nigerian prince” -
Or building a website page with “BUSTY WOMEN NEAR YOU” and “click here to win $1,000,000!” banners everywhere. It just gives the whole place an untrustworthy, low-effort scam vibe.

Real articles from professionals and experts still have images and content they made from scratch. The LACK of taking low-effort shortcuts is a green light signal that the info is more reputable.

Even a scribbly doodle of a chicken feels more genuine & charming than an ai-generated image.

 

[CCsGarden]

Any time I see an AI photo representing an article, I assume the contents are also going to be untrustworthy slop generated by AI.

ai-generated photos have me backpedaling out of the article and blocking the blog who made it.

I’d rather see a blurry, poorly-lit phone pic of someone’s grimy barn than a shiny AI of a fake bird. At least the blurry pic shows a real person used their own experience and knowledge to make the article.

Yall can run your blog contest however you want, but I’m not reading those sus articles. :/

I dis-like AI pictures. It makes me not want to click on the content.

 

[CCsGarden]

You can say that, and I believe you.
But using an ai photo is, to me, akin to typing like a “Nigerian prince” -
Or building a website page with “BUSTY WOMEN NEAR YOU” and “click here to win $1,000,000!” banners everywhere. It just gives the whole place an untrustworthy, low-effort scam vibe.

Real articles from professionals and experts still have images and content they made from scratch. The LACK of taking low-effort shortcuts is a green light signal that the info is more reputable.

Even a scribbly doodle of a chicken feels more genuine & charming than an ai-generated image.
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That looks more real

 

[talkinboutchickens]

You can say that, and I believe you.
But using an ai photo is, to me, akin to typing like a “Nigerian prince” -
Or building a website page with “BUSTY WOMEN NEAR YOU” and “click here to win $1,000,000!” banners everywhere. It just gives the whole place an untrustworthy, low-effort scam vibe.

Real articles from professionals and experts still have images and content they made from scratch. The LACK of taking low-effort shortcuts is a green light signal that the info is more reputable.

Even a scribbly doodle of a chicken feels more genuine & charming than an ai-generated image.
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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.

 

[TokoBird]

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.

 

[thecatumbrella]

Eh, I let the content speak for itself. Several members write really nice articles with AI photos. It's fine. This is a chicken site after all. We're not exactly doing serious work here or giving human-grade medical advice.

I say let's be mindful of others' feelings and move on. Staff can change the rules if they want to.