I created some avatars for you all to use

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33. AFAIK we've never had anyone here pushing DUers to use AI-created art, which

starts with images churned out by mindless software in seconds, for avatars that will be displayed all over the board.

DU already has a great selection of avatars, and IMO real photos of politicians are 100% better than AI- generated images of them.

Much more respectful.

Many people don't consider AI art real art. Many of the image-generating programs out there are trained on data sets of stolen images.

And AI-generated art is a threat to real artists who spent years learning how to create images.

Right now Spotify has been flooded with AI fake music. 15 million tracks from one AI company alone.

I've asked people in.Music Appreciation, which I host, not to post AI stuff there, since the group is about appreciating real music from real human artists.

And while you gave prompts to an image generator and made some choices about which ones to keep and tweak slightly, you didn't create the images you posted here or have much control over what the machine churned out. Identical prompts can get very different results, because the AI is just following an algorithm with no awareness of an image being created.

Anyone on this board could also use AI to create dozens of avatars a day. And some of them would probably want their favorite AI creations added as DU avatars, too.

I don't think EarlG should be asked to open up DU's avatars to everyone who can have software generate an image in seconds.

IMO, DU's own collection of avatars should NOT be used as a gallery for any member's artwork. Especially not for AI-generated images.