I thought the fic was good, great even! I love when Harry gets to be smart and when issues are actually addressed, like the animosity from the Hufflepuffs and the abuse.
But the fact that AI was used in a story on here actually makes me so distressed, even if it wasn't for the writing. I understand that somone might not be great at art, but then just don't include art at all. I would have thought that as a felow creative, you would have understood the harm posed by generative AI.
Author's Response: When I used the generative AI to make art for this fic, it was when AI was still new and the discussion about whether it was ethical or not was just getting started. Creating these images (at the time I was just doing it for fun, seeing what the new AI tools could do), seeing the images that were being created inspired many of the scenes I was writing about. Seeing the images inspired new ideas that I then developed into chapters and had fun writing about. I fully understand many people's hesitation about AI, or their outright dislike of it, and I don't use generated AI images in my stories anymore, but as these specific images helped me to more fully imagine the story and write more of it, I've left them in.
I'm sorry that you don't like it, and that I've offended you with my use of the images. That is never my purpose or desire. I've made a lot of images for this and other stories throughout the years that are not AI, that were my own work from scratch in Blender, like the scenes under the Quidditch Pitch, or were my own work in Photoshop (such as maps I often include in my stories). I've always enjoyed making images (in a variety of ways) for my stories here on P and S.