> This is a problematic approach that many people take; they posit that

It’s like the people who think that everyone who opposes cryptocurrencies only do so because they are jealous they didn’t invest early.

> Everyone just sound like they don’t like coding.

It’s no secret that a lot of people (I’d like having an accurate percentage) got into coding because of the money. When you view it from that perspective everything becomes clearer: those people don’t care for the craft or correctness. They don’t understand or care when something is wrong and it’s in their best interest to convince themselves and everyone else that AI is as good or better than any expert programmer because it means they themselves don’t need to improve or care more than what they already don’t, they can just concentrate on the getting rich part.

There are experts (programmers or otherwise) who use these tools as guidelines and always verify the output. But too often they defend LLMs as unambiguously good because they fail to understand the overwhelming majority of humans aren’t experts or sufficiently critical of whatever they read, taking whatever the LLM spits as gospel. Which is what makes them dangerous.

Consistent, professionally made, beautiful, diverse, free, open-source icons packs are plentiful.

So why pay for AI icons of unknown quality which may not even look to be of the same family? It feels to me someone who is budget-constrained or doesn’t want to spend the money already has more than enough options, and those who need something distinct will hire a designer anyway. I don’t see who this person in the middle that you’re targeting is.

Of course, nothing wrong with building this for fun, but you seem to be trying to make a business out of it, and I don’t understand who the customer is supposed to be.*

* Yes, for sure someone is going to pay for it, there is always someone who’ll spend money on anything, especially if it says “AI” or “blockchain”, or whatever the tech in vogue is, but doesn’t seem enough for a real market when AI image generators are themselves a dime a dozen.

I genuinely wish whatever is hurting you in life ceases. You are being deeply, irrationally antagonistic and sound profoundly unwell. I hope you’ll be able to perceive that. I honestly recommend you take some time off from the internet, we all should from time to time. You clearly are currently unfit for a reasoned discussion and I do not wish to add to your pain. All the best.

This was fantastic, and I didn’t even realise at first I was on a news website. Unfortunately, that became very obvious at the bottom:

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After a whole article about quelling anxiety, perhaps don’t end with links to anxiety-inducing themes?