It must be fate that I'm seeing this for the first time.
AI-generated images. Text is easy. I have to defend what I write at work or school all the time. At school, references and citations are required for just a passing grade. At work, people have ended up working for free adjusting their projects/presentation to align with company policy.
There's no reason I can't plag-check the images I'm using on AI-generated images. I've done it plenty of times for other people's work. I can also add a comment stating what I've used in my checks. At this time, I feel I've met the bare minimum for AI-generated images: Name of the image I published, the image generator, and my account name. I must do more.
Really good points here. I'll add the plagiarism checks to my posts'for AI-images from here on out. I already reference the free-to-use stuff from places like Pixabay. No reason I can't make things a bit easier for someone to double-check at least.