Court Cantrell prefers not to<p>I am so disgusted with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdobeExpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AdobeExpress</span></a>. Ever since they added <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> to their stock images, it's nearly impossible to find images generated by humans.</p><p>Sure, the occasional AI image *might* work well *if* I wanted to incorporate it into my book covers. But I don't. I want to use images created via a human mind with human skill--and voluntarily made available by that human for me to use.</p><p>Thanks to the AI vomit they've stirred into their kettle, Adobe Express stock photos are all but unusable now.</p>