Closing Up Shop?

When times get tough for everyone financially it's hard to tell if people are leaving because of that or lack of interest, since there is very little feedback. This place is getting ever closer to not being worth my time to continue. I'd like to know how those of you who still pay me to do my monkey dance feel before I make a choice though. I've got some other offerings for tomorrow, but I had the dash opened and decided to ask.

At least one person got their honey bunches oated because I've dabbled with AI generated backgrounds. I don't have a problem not using it if everyone has suddenly become paragons of ethics. That said, I know at least 520 people steal access to my work, so I'm kind of shaky on how this system of ethics works. Regardless I've only played around with it here because I don't consider this stuff very important. I've told this story before, but when I was in college my professors told us digital art would NEVER surpass physical media in the art world. So they refused to teach us anything about it. So I got into the world with no idea how to use THE INDUSTRY STANDARD PROGRAMS for anything and it set me back a decade behind the younger people who grew up with computers. I don't want to get left behind again, and I don't think artists are smart enough, or motivated enough, to stop the use of AI in art. They are great at policing social media about it, but I don't see any fucking court cases being filed...

Anyway, I just thought I put this out here because if no one cares if I do this I can just go back to keeping it to myself for no money rather than sharing it for no money. I know communism is all the rage again, but for now I still have medical bills to pay.