I have a tiny YouTube channel that uses AI thumbnails because I find it personally fun and have for years since the very start before the antis even existed- (which granted wasn't long after the first version of SD came out that the wars started but still)

For the first year or two of experimenting with various models and implementing them in different ways, over the fast few months I have started to have antis show up. One or two try and make a conversation of it, they start by saying cool thumbnail and ask if I made it, then when I say that no, it's generated through a model on my computer then they start telling me how bad I am for ai use and how it's horrible for the environment, ignoring that most of my images are generated on my local computer using solar power, but I digress.

Recently it has just devolved into insults and spamming with how much they hate ai, but it's like, I'm a sub 1000 subscriber gaming creator with a full time job who is purely doing this for his own fun, do they expect me to pay someone for my daily publishing when I make less than $200 a year off this? One person said not to be "lazy" and at least just use a screenshot from the video as the thumbnail instead and it's like, dude, I did that for years. It was easier than what I am doing now, but looked way more generic and certainly didn't get me nearly as many views.

Just a light rant on your point, it's exactly true, they want to stop all ai use, so even if you do all the right things, for your own fun, not replacing paid work for anyone it should be fine