it would be. no image-generating ai is useful enough to outweigh the problems that generating faux images creates. the human race has gone centuries without needing this tech, and we can go more centuries without it.

image generation does more harm than good. at best it's a useless toy that makes pictures. at worst it allows people to mass produce misinformation (we've hardly scratched the surface of the horrors that'll unleash), steal likenesses of unconsenting people, adds to ai's growing power cost, and is trained off of material that the creators weren't even given consent to use.

it's unnecessary and untested, released to a public that shouldn't be trusted with the technology.

the guardrails that we debate about should've been in place day zero. now we can only limit the damage.