There is no ethical use of so-called GenAI. It is always extremely disappointing to see it. It is difficult to adequately communicate the depth of rage and despair that many, especially people in or recently made redundant from creative industries, feel when we do. Ethically, it’s hard to say which part is worst: the copyright theft, the environmental damage, the destroyed careers, the deaths from AI-induced psychosis, the financial shenanigans, the obviously immoral military and porn-related uses, or the fact that across the board, whether it’s writing, music, code or art, the output is inevitably on a continuum running from utterly unusable to - at best - a bit shit if you accidentally look at it properly. Ethical issues aside, another problem with using GenAI images for a blog is that it’s the thin end of the wedge. At what point do you start using GenAI to write the blog, bearing in mind that newcomers seeing GenAI images will probably assume you already are. At what point do…
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