Love your analogy here! I don't use AI, not for images and not for writing, but that is a personal choice. And not having the knowledge, or the energy to dive into it and see how it works. Like you say, it is the future, but I won't be okay with anything written only by AI and for an author to pretend they have written it themselves. That would be disrespectful to other writers who come up with their own ideas and write their own stories. All of that said, it seems strange a publication would have problems with AI images. I use images off Pixabay and some of those have been created with AI by others, not me. I wonder how they will react to that?