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I use searched image, trace them, credit them in my slides and writing. It really doesn't take that much time and effort...

Did you want them to get an old CRT and some books and set that up for a photo?

Well, actually, FUCKING YEAH, I WOULD EXPECT THAT. IT WOULD BE THE LEAST OF THINGS TO DO TO AT THE VERY MINIMUM GET THE FACTS RIGHT.

If you’re gonna write about recent history, do it the right way. Especially that it’s quite cheap to get a CRT and some books about the subject. Or, at the very least, use the proper original images you can find online while giving due credit. You lose every single ounce of credibility otherwise.

I get the AI hate, but be real.

YOU be real. There’s AI images, and then there’s sloppy, three years old AI images. These images are just an insult to the matter.

There’s enough slop and wrong info and fake news around, no need to add more.

FFS, the entitlement and laziness these days have become utterly unbelievable…

The issue is that's incoherent and cheapens otherwise good writing on a topic with images and interfaces that aren't accurate representations of the topic. To wit:

Compare these to what VB development actually looked like (I'm old, I was there, I programmed in VB professionally), and you'll see how much of a disservice the AI slop images in the article do to the actual experience of working in the language:

(credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(classic)#/media/File:Microsoft_Visual_Basic_for_MS-DOS_(Professional_Edition_Version1.00).png )

Finding this accurate, fair use license image took me minutes.