Instructional designers often pride themselves on using the most cutting-edge commercial authoring and other tools available to achieve their work. Their creations have to meet high technical standards in order to function in a digital environment, in learning management systems, content management systems, on social media, on digital content platforms, and others. In the present moment,
... [Show full abstract] generative AI tools enable the making of novel texts and digital visuals, among others. A major extant question is how best to harness generative art-making AIs in instructional design work. In this case, this work explores professionally ethical (and legal) ways to use a generative art-making AIs for ID work, as an innovative approach based on a review of the literature, a year of using several free web-facing art-making generative AIs (CrAIyon, Deep Dream Generator, and others) in open or public beta, and learning from applied instructional design work (over several decades).