This is really depressing to me. I think this is abusive.

Your son has no concept of the implications of his body, face and identifying features being used here. He has no ability to opt-out, refuse consent, and avoid his data (biometric features) being swooped up in a data-centers for further training, further data collection & further monetization.

Your son didn't agree to the privacy policy of OpenAI. This is an extremely high level of disrespect to a person you created.

Didn't you hear? you must hire a real artist to do that for you or you're exploiting the industry

If you're not familiar of the pitfalls of this tech, and the fact that there are more ethical tools with which to do those things, I'm not sure what to tell you.

Its a simple way to feel superior - to sneer at normal people having fun and using technology.

You're building a weak strawman here. The author didn't call you nor your son out specifically.

I think @conradludgate was alluding to that we have so much of AI slop these days.

But I see your point too. I too like to generate cute and funny images and share it with my friends and family.

But this being done at scale can lead to overall degradation of the online experience.

I wouldn't feel comfortable uploading a picture of my child to OpenAI servers (for fun nonetheless), but you do you.

I wouldn't be uploading pics of my child to platforms that have historically used CSAM to train their models, but hey you do you