I hope no one takes this as trickery or something.
I mean, it is a trick you pulled. You apparently usually say when AI is used in your posts, actively decided not to for that post to see if you would get more support, and then when that worked you made this follow up as somehow a point for AI generated content. Generally, I think people’s disdain for AI will go away when it stops threatening countless jobs to little benefit for most people while being peddled by all of the worst psychopaths the tech industry has ever created. The whole ‘you can never fully trust anything you ever see online ever again’ side effect of it is also probably a big sore spot, too.
This paints a picture for me that the issue with AI generated content in these spaces is not when it’s AI generated but when people believe that it is.
If that was the hypothesis you were testing, would it not have made more sense to hand draw these four stick figures and then say that is AI generated to see what people say? As it stands, you did what most people find obnoxious of AI fans - you tried to trick people with undisclosed AI generated content and then said “See, this is why you guys should be ok with AI generated content!”



All I know is what you shared in this post:
I’m not saying you’re some mustache twirling villain laughing manically behind the computer, I’m explaining why some people would reasonably feel tricked by this very intentional lie by omission. So you didn’t disclose that you used AI to draw stick figures - big deal, it’s not the end of the world and no one is out to get you.
I hope you try that experiment I mentioned in the future, would be great to compare/contrast.