I expect we’ll make this more discoverable, but FYI the way you can set the image is by going into the editor for the post, scrolling to the bottom, and editing the Link Preview.
Maybe an AI should automatically read the article and generate an image based on it. At least that would give more information than a random (albeit beautiful) color thing.
Not sure whether this is a good idea, but it seems like an interesting experiment. Perhaps you could try this with some selection of high-karma (so the readers are more likely to remember them) recent articles that did not contain a picture, and post the results?
If the prompt “draw something that is associated with the text of the article” is not sufficient, maybe it could include some nudges, such as “check whether the article contains math? is about AI? is fiction?” and then maybe make some specific recommendations (e.g. use a specific artistic style for fiction).
Yep, we considered it, but were a bit hesitant to editorialize too much on behalf of the author (so went with very unopinionated images vaguely in the LW house style). We might try adding default images!
Actually, it’s a bit more confusing than that, since one of them does have an image.
I expect we’ll make this more discoverable, but FYI the way you can set the image is by going into the editor for the post, scrolling to the bottom, and editing the Link Preview.
Great! I have successfully made one of my posts have a kind of terrible thumbnail instead of no thumbnail!
If only there was a handy-dandy lesswrong blog-publishing checklist that included “update the link preview image” as one of its items.
Maybe an AI should automatically read the article and generate an image based on it. At least that would give more information than a random (albeit beautiful) color thing.
Not sure whether this is a good idea, but it seems like an interesting experiment. Perhaps you could try this with some selection of high-karma (so the readers are more likely to remember them) recent articles that did not contain a picture, and post the results?
If the prompt “draw something that is associated with the text of the article” is not sufficient, maybe it could include some nudges, such as “check whether the article contains math? is about AI? is fiction?” and then maybe make some specific recommendations (e.g. use a specific artistic style for fiction).
Yep, we considered it, but were a bit hesitant to editorialize too much on behalf of the author (so went with very unopinionated images vaguely in the LW house style). We might try adding default images!