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, 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 previous 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 fun. This was 2005, so I…