I've been creating original art & illustration professionally and on spec since the 1970s, so the images on my blogs are all my own work. Call me an analog Luddite, but I'm now bypassing any article with an image generated by plagiarism software. Give me awkwardly drawn stick figures, or your own unprofessional photos if that's too hard. Your image is as important as your title. Show me you've put a fraction of effort into that as you did into authorship. Please show me ANYTHING other than the cultural and environmental travesty that is stolen artwork scraped to train the machines. I don't want perfect gradients. I want honesty. It now feels like everyone who devoted years of study to their craft—every true musician, writer and artist is a dinosaur and ai is the Chicxulub impact event.