On AI-generated images: a reflection with myself

Boy, that article about AI-generated images I wrote yesterday, the several blog posts, comments and opinions I have read here and there about that controversial topic… it sticks in my mind. Since yesterday, it’s like I’m having a passionate debate about it with myself. I’m weighing the pros and cons (I still believe there are pros), and upon reflection, I’m now considering using my own cover images instead of the ones I used to generate with AI. I mean, this is pretty paradoxical to what I wrote and defended in my post, but it just made me think. Which is a good thing, isn’t it? There was a time, waaaaay before AI, when I enjoyed tinkering with Photoshop so much, playing with images (photos I shot myself or images grabbed on the web). When I was in my early twenties, I spent countless hours on it. It was my main hobby. That’s basically how I learnt to use Photoshop, starting with version 6 back then. The computer on which I spent an innumerable amount of time on Photoshop, just for…