What is AI creation?
We shouldn’t be comparing a fast runner to someone who came early to church in a car. We don’t deny the man can run. We also cannot speak ill of him for using a car a man invented.
AI is the same. A man-made tool to help us express ourselves faster. It should be a choice: human talent, or AI assistance. The end goal is the experience of the end user, not how the picture was made.
Father, respectfully, the author already said he sets the style, sets the scene, and edits the image. That is not nothing. Calling the art bad, and the man a bad person, is heavier than the act.
AI has come to stay. It is a tool, and a real achievement of this age. We are early, and we are not wrong.
"I use AI to help illustrate my children’s books. Does that make the art bad?" Yes.
& if you don't very clearly indicate it to possible buyers, you are a bad person as you are making money by dishonest means.