@teledyn
Environmental issues are real, and also causing some artists to lose pay. I understand to a point, but yet I too use image generation as you very well know. I also know I could never afford an artist for every project, and in the media, time is of the essence.
Not every article we put out has an AI image, in fact a very small percentage. Most press releases come with the media, or I'll look at such places as unsplash, but when I need something that is unavailable, I have no regrets.

@teledyn
I'm also an artist, I could spend a week on making all my own. Well, you know I might as well shutdown then. For the record though. I run my own LLM Image generation on my own equipment 80 percent of the time.

@teledyn
Problem isn't AI though, it's humanity. People turn every good tool to something disastrous. The "Super Information Highway" now know as the internet quickly became filled with crime and such. Remember, a hammer can be used to build—it can also kill—people make tools a problem. There does need to be a tighter restriction of AI image used in Social Media. Anyhow, we are reading the same book, hopefully we can get to the same page, and read it the same.