Well, not really; people have long ignored overly corporate or low-effort news releases because. The presence of certain language or stock images is a signal (and I would argue a valid one) that the rest of the content is equally low-effort and not worthy of attention. AI images are just the newest version of that signal. I think it behooves the writers of these blog posts/news releases/community updates/etc. to reflect on why they continue to include these signals that their content is low-effort or low-value if they actually want their audience to read it.

Unless the idea is that, in 2026, you assume your audience is an LLM that is ingesting and summarizing your content for the end user and that no human will actually read what you wrote so you don't actually need to care about signals of quality or trustworthiness. The AI generated illustration seems kind of superfluous if that's the case, though.