@glyph Thank you for writing and posting this. It may not be original, but that doesn't invalidate the truth of the advice.

The psychology around this is interesting because I've been blogging for YEARS and always felt like my posts were naked because I didn't have any splashy images to add, mostly because I'm visually and fine/gross motor impaired and art just ISN'T a thing I can do myself.

I do not intend to stop having fun with generative AI tools, because they allow me to exercise creative muscles I don't and CAN'T have, even if the quality of the produced images is highly suspect (They all have their tells, to be sure. Just look at all hard and you'll see them just about ever time).

However I will stop adding these images to my professional posts and will remove those I have already added. That's not the message I'm looking to send.