Monkey....

Just to clarify - this ↑ is a subtweet, by definition. The criticism here is coming from me personally, not SRL & it’s important not to conflate the two.

Suggesting SRL “doesn’t take criticism well” edges into misrepresentation. Links? Proof? What’s your aim?

Happy to debate. Seems you are not?

You don’t know that. You’ve offered no evidence, don’t know which AI tool was used, what data it was trained on, or whether the image was fully or partly human-made. Asserting illegality as fact without proof isn’t argument - it’s assumption.

I understand the concern, but it remains a contested claim, not an established fact.

There’s no evidence that infographic used pirated work - stating that is a baseless and quite possibly offensive accusation.

“Trained on” isn’t the same as copying, and the issue is more nuanced than that.

Context matters. Responding to repeated public claims isn’t harassment - it’s rebuttal.
Disagreement isn’t rudeness, but telling others to “please stop” is policing behaviour.
A view being common doesn’t make it correct or beyond challenge.
Calling pushback “harassment” is shuts down discussion.

I'd imagine replies were disabled to stop pile-ons, not discussion. There’s a big difference between debate and dogpiling.

Or perhaps they limited replies to people they follow. Who knows?

What would you like to contribute to the discussion?

Respectfully, this isn’t engagement - it’s a demand others acquiesce.
Personal opinion is being presented as fact, without evidence or understanding of how the work is done.
No illustrators were affected. No work was stolen.
Why should anyone accept patronising demands framed as moral authority?

Hey @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social, it's fine, keep using Ai if you want to.

So to finish.
Please BE NICE.
This is bluesky not Twitter/x and many of us moved to this place to avoid having to put up with comments like yours.

In five, ten, or twenty years, children’s publishing will still be powered by human creativity. The only question is whether we spent this moment fighting tools - or using them to amplify books.

AI is not going away. The meaningful conversation now is how it’s used - not pretending it can be cancelled by social media pressure.