I’ve always talked about how there’s good and bad ways to use A.I. Well, today, I stumbled upon a bad way of using A.I. And that’s honoring or mourning someone's death with it.

At first, I didn’t really think much of it. If someone wants to use A.I. art to honor Akari Toriyama’s death, that’s okay, it’s the same as someone drawing Goku to honor him right? But then, I started thinking, Toriyama was an artist, someone who had to train and work hard to get the art style he has created and that has touched thousands of other inspiring artists. So belittling his hard work and talent by just slapping in a prompt and feeling like “Your art inspired me for years, so I figured I would show that with this drawing generated by a computer.” just doesn’t sit right with me. And it also didn’t sit right with others.

Now you could make the argument that people are taking this too seriously, but it does just feel like a spit in the face, no matter what the intention was. I’m not saying this user had bad intentions, but posting this kind of A.I. art during a sad and tragic moment, it was just a case of the wrong place, wrong time or needing to read the room.

Do you think this A.I. art was in bad taste? Do you think people are taking this too seriously? Do you think Akira Toriyama would approve of this? Tell us in the comments.