Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of seeing DALL·E /Stable Diffusion posts?
I don&#x27;t mind them on HN because HN doesn&#x27;t support image previews and I generally don&#x27;t have to click in to articles. (Sometimes I&#x27;ll read a few of the comments on HN, which again fortunately doesn&#x27;t support image embeds.)<p>I mind them just about everywhere else. I have a hard time to describe it and I seem to be somewhat alone in it, but the images coming out of these algorithms generally tend to trigger some revulsion reactions in me. It&#x27;s possibly just an uncanny valley relative, but sometimes that revulsion hits notes of true, disgusting horror. The images tend to <i>smell</i> too much like nightmares for my comfort. That simile is about the best I can explain it, I think, they all smell too much like nightmares to me.<p>I&#x27;ve dropped&#x2F;blocked people and bots on social media for posting lots of generated images without CWs. I&#x27;ve threatened to drop more. I hate how much Facebook&#x27;s algorithm tends to surface posts with photos over other content in general, but especially in this moment where many of those photos are these generated things that give me the creeps. There&#x27;s no good way to set a filter to never show me a DALL-E&#x2F;Midjourney&#x2F;Stable Diffusion image ever again.<p>TL;DR: I don&#x27;t mind conversing about these algorithms in HN, but please stop posting the images themselves.