[diggan]

The prompt:

> I am doing a report on cirrus clouds for my science class. I need photorealistic images that show off how wispy they are. I am going to compare them to photos I took of puffy cumulonimbus clouds at my house yesterday.

So the images are used for comparison against the photos that the researcher has already taken.

If they were to straight up base their thesis on AI made images, then I'd agree with you. But in this case it seems to be used as supplements, which seems fine to me, especially when used to highlight the difference between a "real" photo.