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idk if this image is AI (i cannot tell), but AI image generators are, currently, unethical.
personally i don't have a problem with the idea of AI image generation, I have a problem with companies taking artists' images without them opting in to it, then attempting to "replace" artists with an algorithm that's trained on stolen work. I also have a problem with the technology's environmental impacts. i think this is a common sentiment.
edit: on further analysis, i'm around 70% sure this is AI-generated, due to the TVs looking the same while having a different art style, and due to the strange facial expression in the 2nd panel. also, in the 2nd panel, it would make more sense artistically for the character to be lying down while thinking that, showing that it can look the same on the outside.
I see nothing unethical about using AI, as long as you're not making something that will put an artist out of work. But memes are completely ethical. You're not going to hire an artist to create such a thing.
AI is created unethically, therefore choosing to use it while knowing how it is made and while knowing its environmental impacts is also unethical. You can choose to use AI, but you can't deny that its use is unethical.
Then how about instead of crying "slop" whenever you catch a whiff of AI, you instead start calling for the creation of ethical generators? Ones that are trained on ethically sourced training materials?
AI is never going away. That is a fact. It's too lucrative to just abandon. So rather than waste time and effort trying in vain to get rid of it, work to change it for the better.