One more time: if you call yourself progressist or solarpunk or climate-conscious or pro degrowth AND you are using AI generated images: no, you are not any of those things.
AI is the most superfluous thing you could go without in your leisure time, when nobody is trying to make you use it for work; you aren't missing anything by skipping the anti-worker, energy wasting app that steals from people by design.
I can't understand why all this is less important to some people than "haha I got a mediocre cartoon/a realistic pic of the pope riding a t-rex made by the app"