While China brings electricity, roads, and rail to the Global South, the imperial left brings its measuring tape—only to weep over wage gaps. But whose gap are they really mourning? And in whose name?
Annoying that this article uses a stupid “AI” generated header image. Have so many people completely forgotten that you can just find an image online and ask permission to use it? Or find a permissively licensed photo? There are tons of photos and videos of BRI projects. Just use one of those instead of a nonsensical uncanny valley thing you generated. I can’t believe how dumb everyone is now. It’s offensive to me that people value authenticity and showing real people that they’d rather just generate up a fake picture of an African guy and Chinese guy. At least have the honesty to put the prompt you used to generate the image in the caption, and cite the software used.
Sorry, but isn’t this the behaviour the article is calling out? Teaching people the truth about the ‘Chinese debt trap’ is a useful thing to do. We shouldn’t be purity testing the image they use. They might have chosen to use AI because it is better at communicating the basic idea, or simply because they don’t think digging through archives is the best use of their time.
I think complaining about the AI image is a separate thing. Using it doesn’t detract from the argument, but it is annoying to see. The article post only stands to gain from going the “extra mile” (the previous standard mile) of finding an appropriate picture to demonstrate what they’re talking about.
Annoying that this article uses a stupid “AI” generated header image. Have so many people completely forgotten that you can just find an image online and ask permission to use it? Or find a permissively licensed photo? There are tons of photos and videos of BRI projects. Just use one of those instead of a nonsensical uncanny valley thing you generated. I can’t believe how dumb everyone is now. It’s offensive to me that people value authenticity and showing real people that they’d rather just generate up a fake picture of an African guy and Chinese guy. At least have the honesty to put the prompt you used to generate the image in the caption, and cite the software used.
Sorry, but isn’t this the behaviour the article is calling out? Teaching people the truth about the ‘Chinese debt trap’ is a useful thing to do. We shouldn’t be purity testing the image they use. They might have chosen to use AI because it is better at communicating the basic idea, or simply because they don’t think digging through archives is the best use of their time.
I think complaining about the AI image is a separate thing. Using it doesn’t detract from the argument, but it is annoying to see. The article post only stands to gain from going the “extra mile” (the previous standard mile) of finding an appropriate picture to demonstrate what they’re talking about.
“Chineese peeoplee aree the futuree comradee, cheeck out all theese eextra fingeers.”
~Ancient AI Chatbot Proverb
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