Generative AI and OA

[Godd Howard]

I feel like in many communities online, generative AI is viciously abhorred, and so hosting these images might cause some controversy in the future.

That's part of what I was thinking. Generative AI is only in it's infancy, however there have already been several lawsuits against several of the major AI companies alleging mass copywright infringement. I imagine we're going to see a lot more of these as the tech progresses, and, even if there is no chance of OA being implicated in these lawsuits I don't know if it would be a great idea for the site to appear as if we support generative AI. I don't think that's nearly as much as an issue with the images that used AI as a tool, but I'm pretty sure I've seen a few totally AI generated images in articles before. It might be a good idea to find alternative images to those articles, although in fairness it's not as if I have any alternative images to the site.