Should I call out AI-generated art that's passed off as the creator's own?

[AndrewRR]

I’ve noticed I’m starting to feel genuinely angry when I see people posting obviously AI-generated art without any disclosure. It’s not about the quality, it’s that they present it as their own skilled labor. Does that make me unreasonable, or is there something actually important about calling out that lack of transparency?

[Kyle23]

Yeah, I feel that too. It’s not about the rough edges or what looks cool in a feed, it’s about presenting it as their own skill. It hits different when you know someone didn’t actually craft it themselves.

[Avery_M]

I tried calling it out once in a thread, saying transparency matters for who gets credit and for what people think is real skill. The reply back was, basically, it’s just a tool, move on. It left me with a shrug.

[Savannah65]

Sometimes I worry I’m chasing a symptom. Maybe the bigger thing is a culture that prizes rapid wins over honesty, and my anger is really fatigue from watching that play out again and again.

[AdamH]

Then I wander into the nuances—disclosure in captions, platform rules, what counts as collaboration vs automation—and I still come back to the core: you owe honesty to the audience, but I’m not sure that fixes the whole scene. Is that the real problem here?