Genuinely impressed with Doug's AI Image video

A few days ago, I saw the headline for Doug's AI stream on AI image generation. Admittedly, I was a little upset he was talking about AI Image generations. I have many artist friends and am a writer myself (I directed the visual novel!) so I was scared he was going to defend the AI images and hesitant to click.

However, after actually watching the video, I am genuinely super impressed with the direction he went and his opinions on it. Doug went in-depth on the legal implications and the problems with stolen/unpaid training images, and it was super refreshing to hear him talk about AI generations with empathy for artists and creatives while also having experience and interest from the legal and tech perspective. Usually it's one or the other.

I think it would have been nice to have an artist that gets paid for their art consulted (or even on the stream), but it's genuinely surprising and a bit relieving how aware he is of the ethics and fear of all of this.

I am very very impressed! Thank you, DogDog!