People search and remember things visually. Even if they're not
consciously aware. So on the Cybershow [0] we decided to jump-in and
use AI images as a quick way to visually tag episodes with something
meaningful and fun.
We did that despite some moral ambivalence/uneasiness around AI
"art".
For example, give me a "young and exciting Dana Meadows in front of a
board of systems theory"
I'm not awful at photoshopping things, and sometimes that's the only
way to get a specific image one has in mind. But it saves time and
lets us concentrate on writing and researching instead.
TBH if an artist/illustrator came along and said "Let me do the
episode icons even though you can't pay me yet" I'd feel inclined to
ask the AI to step aside.