the popular fear, continued
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/7/2315259/-Please-ban-all-AI-images-in-all-diaries-Add-it-to-the-ROTR ⚙️ ( this is a top-rated user-generated "diary" on liberal blog DailyKos)
AI Images are theft. There is no ethical use of generative AI to create images. AI images appear regularly in DKOS diaries, at this point on a daily basis. Major contributors like Egberto and Tom Hartman regularly use AI images in their diaries. Speaking as an artist, I cannot tell you how depressed it makes me to see this webpage allow for such brazen theft on a daily basis.
Every use of generative AI wastes energy, and water. Every use of generative AI to create images steals from the work of artists who cannot afford to have their work stolen. We are contributing to the permission structure that allows big fascist tech companies to continue their brazen theft of the intellectual and creative property of artists all over the world.
💡 As a reminder, this "wastes water" claim is utter crap. Your ChatGPT query uses at most one teaspoon of water, and possibly far less. And, by "uses", means "causes it to evaporate and turn into rain elsewhere".
🔥 if you "can't afford" the water use, buy a composting toilet.
The arguments about "generative AI enables fascism" ... are in-group propaganda. There is no serious argument there; it's just emotive words strung together.
As far as intellectual property theft and this is bad for working artists ... no.