Once you start making fake images of social evils, even with the best of intentions, you are compromised. After all, why not look at your analytics and juice the prompts to make the campaign work better? And soon the images diverge from the real problems you’re supposedly trying to solve and into the realm of lurid fantasy, presenting an exaggerated and simplified vision of the problem that pushes emotional buttons harder than realistic reportage would. From then on, the die is cast. If things improve, surely it’s better to keep making images of them being worse than ever, as after all, it’s good to have cash reserves just in case. And given how good a job you’ve done with that, surely you deserve a bonus. The computer-generated sad-eyes shantytown urchins wouldn’t want it any other way.