08/14/2026
A quick note about AI & Whispers of Warpaint! 📚🤖🎀
Alright, so I'm going to post about this just once here as I've seen a couple of comments, and have even received a personal, quite disturbing 😶🌫️, message regarding my occasional use of AI-generated images for WWBB. I wanted to address it because I actually understand where the concern comes from, I really do.
I absolutely 100% support artists, writers, designers and other creatives being paid for their work. If we're talking about corporations or established businesses with marketing budgets choosing AI simply because it's cheaper than paying a human artist, I understand the criticism.
But Whispers of Warpaint isn't a corporation with a marketing department. It's me. 😂 I'm literally just a girl who loves tea & books. 💁🏼♀️
I'm a single mom raising two boys, including a child with additional support needs. I'm back in school, managing a household, building this business from the ground up, and currently operating on a budget where even a Canva subscription isn't something I can justify every month & have even less time to become skilled at it quickly.
I am, however, a creative person with approximately 87 ideas in my head at any given moment and absolutely no graphic-design department to hand them to.
So yes, I have used and will continue to use AI as a tool to help me turn those ideas into a flyer, an event graphic, or an image for a post that I otherwise wouldn't have the time or money to create. I will do so until I have the resources and contacts to do otherwise.
I understand that some people choose not to support AI-generated imagery at all, and I respect that. I also hope there can be some room in this conversation for very small businesses starting up and people who simply don't have access to the resources larger organizations do.
As WWBB grows, I would love to reach a point where I can commission local artists and designers and actually put money back into the creative community that I love. That's a goal for me okay it is not something I'm opposed to at all! Until then though, I'm working with the resources I have on hand.
If a local artist or designer ever wants to volunteer or collaborate on something with WWBB, my door is absolutely open. But I also won't ask creative people to work for free simply because I can't currently afford their rates. Their time and talent have value, too.
Whispers of Warpaint has always been about stories, creativity, community and making something meaningful out of what you have. Right now, this is part of how I'm doing that. ❤️📚
Goodnight and thanks for giving this little one-woman operation some grace while I slowly build it up, piece by piece. 🫶🏼🥹
