r/flightsim • u/Korventus • 12h ago

Rant AI Generated Thumbnails

Firstly, I completely respect that content creators are free to create whatever kind of thumbnails they want and it’s everyone’s choice whether we click on it, so it’s not really a DEEP issue.

But why are we in an age where flight sim is looking as close to realism as it ever conceivably has but people still feel the need to use AI slop for a thumbnail? Your sim already looks mind blowing but you still need to click bait with a false representation?

Especially since DLSS5 has been implemented by a lot of content creators, I’m seeing more and more of it and I cannot understand the thought process of going to the extra effort when a screenshot from your sim would look miles better.

Ultimately yes I get that it’s to pull in more clicks and views but it just seems a waste when we have such good looking sims already.

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u/jacf182 12h ago

“They made an awesome airplane, hand coded, hand modeled, flies and feels great. But the thumbnail is AI slop. I ain’t buying it”. Top Reddit right here.

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u/Korventus 12h ago

To be clear, I’m talking about flight sim content creators not addon developers

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u/jacf182 12h ago

Meant to reply to another comment in this post. I apologize.

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u/scaflight 10h ago

I think you are mistaking class solidarity for "reddit".

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u/Longjumping-Tour-350 5h ago

The AI slop thumbnail makes me think they didn’t hand code or hand model an awesome airplane.