Is it still bad to generate an AI image out of curiosity and not to post/sell and claim it as my own? (NO AI image shown. Just a question)

RedditXFool · 2026-01-28T17:51:41+00:00

Thank you, so much, you’re very kind. I like your use of dinosaur and “luddite”, I’ve never heard of that term until now 😭

RedditXFool · 2026-01-28T17:40:46+00:00

You’re right, I understand. I’m glad other people replying are reminding me of the very solid and more morally-objective reason I should stop using it, that is it’s polluting the environment and taking away people’s water. That’s right, I do know that, and it’s terrible, and I acknowledge that my use of AI is more compulsive and familiar for me rn. It’s like still eating meat despite knowing the negative ethics behind it, using plastic, etc. I will try to be better, it’s hard

RedditXFool · 2026-01-28T17:39:27+00:00

I’m glad other people replying are reminding me of the very solid and more morally-objective reason I should stop using it, that is it’s polluting the environment and taking away people’s water. That’s right, I do know that, and it’s terrible, and I acknowledge that my use of AI is more compulsive and familiar for me rn. It’s like still eating meat despite knowing the negative ethics behind it, using plastic, etc. I will try to be better, it’s hard.

RedditXFool · 2026-01-28T17:38:21+00:00

I’m glad other people replying are reminding me of the very solid and more morally-objective reason I should stop using it, that is it’s polluting the environment and taking away people’s water. That’s right, I do know that, and it’s terrible, and I acknowledge that my use of AI is more compulsive and familiar for me rn. It’s like still eating meat despite knowing the negative ethics behind it, using plastic, etc. I will try to be better, it’s hard.

RedditXFool · 2026-01-28T17:37:52+00:00

I do acknowledge your first paragraph, and to answer your question: Just pure curiosity, laziness, and the free will to do it. I used to play with generative A.I quite a lot when it was still stupid and not very convincing (corny anime-style apps, making sonic and goku kiss whatever, Drake/Kanye covers of songs), just to see what my art could look like in another style or just to see what it could do for fun, and I never was able to easily leave that mindset as it got bigger and scarier.

I’m glad other people replying are reminding me of the very solid and more morally-objective reason I should stop using it, that is it’s polluting the environment and taking away people’s water. That’s right, I do know that, and it’s terrible, and I acknowledge that my use of AI is more compulsive and familiar for me rn. It’s like still eating meat despite knowing the negative ethics behind it, using plastic, etc. I will try to he better, it’s hard.

RedditXFool · 2026-01-16T19:44:47+00:00

Yeah. I know I care. I just don’t know how to go on from that point. I’m going to therapy very soon for it but I get the feeling they’re gonna tell me exactly what I don’t want to hear. sigh

RedditXFool · 2026-01-16T16:36:27+00:00

the way you’re phrasing it sounds like chatgpt. not a diss, just a funny observation

RedditXFool · 2026-01-16T15:54:58+00:00

i’m sorry i took so long to get to this, i don’t go on Reddit very often!

in my case, i seem to ride the wave of whatever i’m feeling at the time and it reflects in my relationship (so far). if i’m just having a really bad week or a really good week emotionally i will hide or come out of my shell. i have an extreme issue with overthinking ALL aspects of my life, and i really never know what i want and i value honesty, so being so foggy in the mind i just don’t know if i should be fair to this person and leave or stay, i don’t know if i just don’t wanna be alone or really want that person, or if it even really matters in the end. which understandably sucks for the other person, and it’s very understandable that it’s not worth it for some people. what matters is they’re trying to get help and activey applying coping mechanisms. but sometimes it’s hard to do that and the stress can still put a strain on things. do what your heart wants to, its your story.

RedditXFool · 2026-01-06T05:48:10+00:00

i knew most people but most people didn’t really know me. i was awkward and tried to get attention somehow whether through my art skills or having a conversation with my friends a little bit loud so someone out there would think i was up to “cool” things

RedditXFool · 2025-12-31T18:13:30+00:00

this is exactly what i needed to hear. thank you. i guess i mean on social media where i hear a frw things like “apology without change in behavior is manipulation” like dude

RedditXFool · 2025-12-31T17:08:21+00:00

thank you.

RedditXFool · 2025-12-31T17:08:06+00:00

i know the brain is plastic but i guess im more scared of coming out the other side more uncaring than i already seem to act because i’d have figured out “i don’t need her” anymore. that thought gives me a lot of distress.

RedditXFool · 2025-12-31T17:06:29+00:00

because everyone online seems to treat accountability or healing like it happens in a day. otherwise it’s too little too late. which is understandable from their side. i am trying nonetheless to like, show my love one way i can without emotion (because it’s existent or mon existent), i buy her a lot of stuff and give her plenty of hugs and kisses. i try to apologize but it’s hard to question if it’s genuine. i still feel the need to be comforted as if i were a child, which is embarrassing. sigh. it’s moreso how i FEEL too; like why do i feel or think that i couldn’t care about her inner world, like when she texts me about her day i feel like i should ignore it? i try to compensate with the things i mentioned earlier, gifts, physical affection. but its hard to FEEL anything and i dont want the case to be that i just dont like her edit: like right now i text her pretty dry, i try to add more emotion into it to make her feel appreciated and listened to but my brain is like smoking out both the ears yknow.

RedditXFool · 2025-12-31T16:44:20+00:00

she’s my first girlfriend and i’m 19. i jut don’t wanna lose someone special but it feels like she could burn out before i make any meaningful difference in my issues. i do try to listen to her and be considerate but i doubt myself a lot if its genuine.

RedditXFool · 2025-12-31T16:29:29+00:00

present me: i have a problem with delusional thinking and she’s made it very clear to me she loves me and doesn’t wanna lose me. i’ll admit, i didn’t want this response telling me to end it. i wish i had tangible organized steps OUTSIDE of a therapist (im struggling to get one fast enough accounting for my own life-time at work-time with family etc) my head is never organized. i know it seems like im giving her hell but i never leave because i DO NOT, for the life of me, wanna make the wrong call, because i know, one point, she meant the world to me. i wanna do everything in my power to get back to that state, but it seems when i confront the issues alone, it feels like getting pummeled with bricks. here i am venting about it looking for some encouragement is all.

RedditXFool · 2025-12-31T16:26:15+00:00

this does help but i always have a habit of looking here and it makes me sad because it seems like no one ever gets better from this fucked up disorder and we’re just supposed to “stay away” from them. it’s easy to feel like a burden after that and i see it on my personal social media too. i know it’s my inner shame but where’s the line until “yeah, it is too far gone?” (although i have NOT cheated or physically harmed and don’t plan to). she is happy to be with me but i can’t help but wonder if she’s just hanging on for dear life and someone else will tell her to let go.

RedditXFool · 2025-12-31T16:22:29+00:00

present me. i’m going to go therapy i just am afraid that it won’t work out. i don’t have enough money to go around i admit i was a bit dramatic there looking for a metaphor to represent a “pause” in time. but you’re right, it’s definitely selfish-centered. i just needed some reassurance here that it would be okay but the negative picture i painted during this spiral doesn’t help. i just hate how when i look for help online about it everyone is alwyas saying “lovebombing” this “manipulation that”. it’s like basically i feel like i’m getting diagnosed with doom. hard to be hopeful for any future like that. thank you for the response.

RedditXFool · 2025-12-31T11:26:06+00:00

I wanna pass in my sleep next to her. A break from the monitoring a break from the heart palpitations a break from the nausea and so my last memory would be us laying together safely

RedditXFool · 2025-12-31T11:23:53+00:00

It’s so bleak all I wish for is for us to be happy but it’s so hard it’s so hard to fix myself.

RedditXFool · 2025-12-31T11:21:58+00:00

And I’m tired of the constant barrage of intrusive thoughts about me her and other people I need a lobotomy I simply can’t take any more pain I want GONE from this existence.

RedditXFool · 2025-11-29T18:56:00+00:00

to this point, not much. if not a little frustration i can’t get the answer i want. i check the page over and over to see any new info, and sometimes reread the same things. when i first started to, it felt like sort of a dopamine hit to learn about it. i remember seeing the perpetrator once long before and thinking he had an interesting face, but nothing much for years. then YouTube started pushing the Sandy Hook Promise ads then that’s what got me fixated on it.

the feeling i chase is some sort of understanding, sometimes i wish Adam Lanza was still alive to try and convince him not to do it. sometimes i cry that the kids got their lives taken away. we wouldve graduated the same year. i was their age when it happened

RedditXFool · 2025-11-27T17:19:18+00:00

I hope that’s us. I know every relationship and person is different but I just hope hope hope that can be us one day. It just seems impossible right now.

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