They are being rightly cautious. It’s going to take time to figure out good practice with these tools. Everyone calling out basic caution as “dystopian” is really over the top.

I’ve been using tools like this for over a year now. Even with filtered dataset and filtered interface, they can make images that would make the Fangoria crowd blush if you put the slightest effort into it.

It’s one thing to be able to make brain-wrenching images with a lot of photoshop effort (or digging hard enough in the dark corners of the internet). It’s another thing entirely give anyone the ability to spew out thousands of them trivially.