Ah, I would just relax about it honestly... You didn't violate any sort of copyright or something since it was just you making it for your personal use. If someone was inspired by an artwork of some other artist it's just being inspired by something, and AI doesn't just copy other artworks anyway but works similarly to a human brain with how it's a neural network. And you didn't even post this AI generated thing, but something inspired by it haha. Really, it's not that easy to be some guilty evil monster who is exploting everyone and so on. :P

That's what people have been telling me so far in different places. It just feels like a retroactive betrayal of ideals... I suppose it might be just my brain sabotaging me again through conjuring anxiety and guilt out of nothing.

yeah I think that's fine, especially since you said that the ai part was just like blobs and stuff, honestly I did some stupid prompts in some to see what would happen only to go "huh that looks pretty cool actually!"

I ended up never using it again in part because I found it more restrictive than using just random blobs found in real world. Those leave more room for imagination than a prompt. Plus I've grown increasingly aware of implications of this technology and felt discouraged from ever touching it again

yeah that's fair!

All good.