Updating on this: We've stuck to our beans mostly, we aren't going to go back to training, and we appreciate everything we've learned.
We're still using AI in some capacity to learn and grow but we feel like it's more of a tool, and that's OK <3
Nobody's horrible for using it
And we won't stop fixing https://github.com/Ktiseos-Nyx/Dataset-Tools either -- so while we've stopped working in and out of generative AI images and media -- we love the problem solving of the metadata reader..
While simultaneously hilariously having no reason to keep up with it LOL.