Hello!
I was interested in your mention that scaling with AI is a dubious topic, and I would like to know why it is considered so?

It was mostly that there is a lot of hatred for AI image generation. Which I think is fairly justified, since a lot of the training was done without consent or regard to the rights of the artists. My point here was just that using AI for upscaling of pictures is a good use of the image AIs' capabilities that doesn't hurt anyone :)
This is of cause just my opinion :p

Appeasement isn't sanctification—given the perceived excuse of consensus the rabble will yet demand crucifixion.
Let them bring the nails and hammer themselves. v0v

I never had an issue with AI up-scaling as it is way more effective and efficient than the legacy methods. I actually am planning to re-construct my AI research server at some point in time to help science progress much faster than it could by conventional means. I use BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) So yea, there are good uses, neutral uses, and bad uses for AI. I always looked at it subjectively. By the way, thanks for bringing back the legacy Omega drill as I never liked how the new one was designed. Really liked its' looks, but never liked how the mining to its' own inventory was incarnated.

Thank you all for your answers!

It's not like factorio mod give any financial benefice or at least that very marginal. I would say using LLM to generate image or text and use it to win big money is the real problem.