Let’s put it this way. Every single one of us is in the background of someone’s selfie, which could be taken in a public or private place, and that photo has been posted on the Internet without our consent. It’s not creepy, don’t worry about it. Unless you’ve done closeups of strangers faces, then you should be asking for their permission when you take the photo since they are the subject.

^^THIS. I remember Photoshop being the biggest new threat to human kind since a skilled user could create an image that looked real but was totally fake. One could argue that AI generated images takes no skill, but having clocked dozens of hours using Stable Diffusion/Automatic1111, I can assure you that it still requires a lot of skill and technical understanding to create an image that looks real and doesn’t have weird mutations.

To that regard, I view it as a new tool for creating art, rather than a threat. In fact, I might train a model on my 10s of thousands of photos I’ve taken and see if it can replicate my style just for fun.