I’ve been thinking a lot about where image-based AI tools are heading, especially ones that can heavily alter photos. I work in digital design, and over the last year I’ve seen clients become both excited and nervous at the same time. On one hand, innovation is moving insanely fast and genuinely useful things are coming out. On the other, regulation feels slow and sometimes disconnected from how these tools are actually used. Do we really need strict rules now, or would that just kill useful experimentation before we even understand the technology properly?