We experimented – and you shared your opinion. The overall sentiment is clear: You preferred the article featuring Gustavo’s real photos over the version with AI-generated images. Among the reasons most of oyu mentioned were credibility, journalistic integrity, and your ability to emotionally connect with Gustavo and the Moroccan street dogs in general. This gives us valuable insight into how people evaluate visual content and how they respond to AI-generated images. At the same time, we need to look at our own experiment critically. We deliberately chose a rather artistic AI style intended to evoke a warm, comforting feeling – like a beautiful story from a children’s book. This naturally created a strong contrast to the real photographs. Would your opinions have been less unanimous if we had generated images that were nearly indistinguishable from real photos? What if we had not disclosed which images were AI-generated and which were real? It is also possible that a generally more critical attitude toward AI images influenced the evaluation once the images were clearly labeled as such. …