<div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">Need to unsubscribe?</span><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"> Manage here</a><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">. </span></div><div><br></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">8 August 2026</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** Some AI Opinion</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** Notebook AI webinar being released today!</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">** Full-Text Search offer extended 1 day due to popular demand</font></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Some AI Opinion</font></div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d6dec29a-7fff-04d9-ee81-e8b7c758fabb"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4">I wrote this in response to a comment on the use of AI images in historical and genealogical writing. I was addressing the fact that while there are suggestions for how to use images responsibly, researchers should be able to find something in the real world to illustrate their writings. In the event there\u2019s nothing that one can find to illustrate a point, there\u2019s always creating an image manually. I realize others have differing opinions and that\u2019s fine. So I made this comment:</font></span></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">\u201cI have stopped using any AI images across the board--with one exception. This may be an unpopular take, but AI images all look the same to me and they look cheap. I make most of my illustrations myself--and yes, it shows. Many times they are pictures of records, items (including heirlooms and artifacts) I have around the house (maybe sometimes posing them in creative ways), hand drawn images (yes I use crayon), etc. If I don't have a picture of dead relative, I can usually find something to use as an illustration in writing about him/her without resorting to AI to give me an image of what it thinks he/she looked like. </font></span></p><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4">\u201cWe are researchers and genealogists and that means we should be able to find something in the real world to illustrate our ancestral writings. Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should.\u201d</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4">What do you think? </font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">
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