Not just the imagery, very clearly the text as well. It really puts me off of reading an article when it's so obvious, I'm not sure why. It almost feels like the author is trying to pull something over on me.
I agree, it feels like an advertorial trying to sell me products even when it isn't, which is a shame as the underlying content is detailed, original and long form.
> I tracked the vocals in my apartment in the Mission, San Francisco
This has no relevance at all to what is being said at that point in the article. But it feels very much like dropping in references to a specific guitar brand or plug-in before it's relevant elsewhere too. Like an LLM has based the style on SEO blogspam.
It's disrespectful, that's why. If someone doesn't think it's worth the time and effort to write something, it's not worth my time to read it.
All writing, visual art and music is an act of expression and communication. If one delegates that human element to a machine, they're a poseur, and that's the end of it.
Thanks for calling that out and saving a click. There are lots of nice reconstructions of dance music on YouTube, which are fascinating to learn from as someone who likes to play with DAWs and synths, which are more worth the time.
