

My life has been nothing but a cycle of “getting my shit together” to “barely holding my shit together” to “all of my shit coming apart at the seams”, on repeat ever since I was a teenager.
Progress is ephemeral. Progress doesn’t mean jack when you end up back where you started cause of shit outside of your control.
Learn to let it all go and stop comparing your life to how it was. Life just is, enjoy it to the fullest however you can, cause tomorrow it could all be gone in a flash.
Congratulations, you have rediscovered that people make mistakes and thus their actions do not always perfectly align with their convictions.
That doesn’t make them a hypocrite, it makes them human.
It isn’t as if these individuals are purposely endorsing AI imagery, more that they have simply failed to spot it as such. With how these algorithms are advancing, it is becoming more difficult for the casual user.
Your little strawman is creating a character where you get to assign the intent behind its actions as you wish to have it support your argument and then claiming it is representative of all users. No one is falling for it.