I finally got around to playing with an AI image generator. I've long wanted to see what all the hype is about and if it will really put human artists out of business. I don't think all you content creators out there have anything to worry about, rather you have yet another tool to incorporate into your craft. If you insist on handwriting your manuscripts even after the advent of the typewriter, then yes, you will become obsolete, but for everybody else, it is a pretty neat tool, but still a tool: it needs human input and creativity and taste to make it meaningful. It also requires time and talent and creativity, you can't just push a button and there it is.
I played with an image generator and read a couple articles, one an interview with an author who uses AI to help brainstorm and organize his books but found he had the same problems with print as I did with the images: they don't necessarily make a lot of sense! The human touch was still needed to edit, refine, select, hone, and direct. The computer can spit out a boundless array of images or text but to make it truly creative and artistic, someone needs to direct it. I also found several articles on copyright law concerning computer generated stuff and it agrees that to be copyrightable, the computer's junk must be organized and edited and changed significantly by a human person.
It is a ton of fun if you like this sort of stuff but unless you are interested in editing the resulting images, I'm not sure it is a great option for indy ebook covers. Here are a couple examples:
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