Learn using image generation properly rather than accepting slop and use it when you need it’s. Just like with LLMs generating text.
These tools are going to stay and they can be useful. Refusing to use them when they are useful for a good cause is not going to help anybody.
Also, problematic aspects of these tools are always related to capitalism. Artists whose work was used against their interests suffer because of conditions of our current socio-economic system. In a system that doesn’t make relationship with art alienated, it wouldn’t exist.
Sometimes I just talk to myself.
Sometimes I talk with a random character. I can feel agency (or illusion of Independent agency) from anyome at this point, whether I want an anime waifu to “talk back” or to play out a dialogue I’m supposed to have with an IRL person soon.
And sometimes I talk with my inner companions. There are a few characters I have built stable, genuine relationships with over years.
Btw. at some point I started seeing my mind as a process rather than an entity (or set of entities). And like in other complex processes, it would be strange if we couldn’t observe any internal contradictions in it.