OT, but these types of AI-generated header images are beginning to kill my willingness to read the following content, independently of whether the actual content is original or AI generated as well, simply because it feels like everything is fake then. I wish people would stop using them. It's like badly photoshopped magazine images in the 90s.
It’s such an unforced error too. Having the generated picture harms the article, but not having a picture would have probably no measurable effect at all. Like, save yourself the tokens.