would it not be enough to mark media as sensitive?

will do!

CWs work better than hashtags for filteeing, IMO. And let you post your art in a filterable way without tagging it, which is impprtant.

The hashtag is optional but helpful, the content warning is the main thing ^.^ The content warning will hide the media and give viewers the option of clicking if they want to - some people just need an advanced warning that the post contains AI art so that they can prepare for it before clicking through, but still want to click through. The hashtag lets people add the hashtag to a block list so they *never* see posts containing that hashtag, which some people also want to do. :)

I've also been made aware that media marked as sensitive (when you hit the 'mark media as sensitive' checkbox rather than using the content warning feature) doesn't mark the media as sensitive on all platforms, so yeah, ideally use the full CW :)

You can have a look at this thread and comments to see what people are saying about eye contact: mastodon.art/@Curator/10821015… but in a nutshell, it's anxiety from direct eye contact and/or being stared at, mostly from photographs but can also extend to artwork and can include animals as well. People with social anxiety disorder (like me!), for example, avoid eye contact and for some that extends to images.

what exactly makes AI art trigger people?
I know eye contact triggers an old part of the brain (being watched by predator)