Personal philosophy regarding AI... how much is too much? Can we really avoid it?

Like a lot of us, I find AI generated images to be a turn off. I post a lot of my photos at Flickr and when I see a group there that allows obviously AI content I usually leave it. If I see an AI generated vid at Youtube, i simply stop watching.

But AI is a slippery slope. It insinuates into our lives. Despite my aversion to it, when using Lightroom Classic, I sometimes use the "Remove" tool. One option when doing that involves AI. Who among us is able to resist the temptation to utilize that feature?

Yesterday someone asked a question in here... it was in regards to a common phrase used by "content creators". I never heard that phrase... did a google search... and found an answer. I quoted what I found in my comment.

Well, google uses AI... and I was ... for half a day... banned from here. OK!

So in addition to asking the community if it is even possible for us to avoid AI when doing photography (I maintain that it's quite a challenge), I am asking the mods to reconsider "r/photography Rules". I belong to quite a few subreddits... they each have their own rules. That's a lot to remember.

This community has 11. That's a lot to remember. When Moses came down from the mountain, the Almighty gave him 10 rules to remember...

For what it's worth, one of the reasons that I comment in here and never post any more is that the bar is set rather high in r/photography regarding posts. This subreddit seems to remove posts quite frequently. (When a beginner asks a dumb question, i like to answer as quickly as possible because I know his post will be removed soon.)

" Please read the FAQ before posting. " The FAQ is an encyclopedia!

I wonder what rules this this post has broken....

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u/aarrtee — 21 days ago

Lightning over the Atlantic from Rehoboth Beach Delaware [5120 x 2916]

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