Reply To: photos of favourite characters – not a story

[Diacritical]

What value is it actually adding to the site staying up? It’s not a story, it’s not a particularly novel idea, and it’s not really saying anything at all. It’s a selection of generic pictures of women created by an image generation algorithm. Anyone could get the same experience by going directly to the ai model themselves, or even just browsing a stock photo website.

Surely the point of a site like this is its niche appeal, the fact that you come here and you know that you’re going to get stories written by people that get it, that you wouldn’t find elsewhere, but lately it’s been feeling like I could replicate half of the site by just going onto chatgpt and saying “write me a story about a woman who shaves her head”. Maybe I’m out of touch with what the people want, but when I log on and see that at least five stories currently on the front page are untagged output from chatgpt, and there’s this non-story sitting right at the top, I look at the drafts I have sitting unfinished and think why bother – it’ll just be pushed off the front page into obscurity by some jpgs that took two minutes of work to generate.