"It all looks the same" -> there's plenty of room for better prompting and models. Just look at civit.ai -- the "sameness" problem is just low skill with the new tools. The floor used to be "looks like a kid drew it," now the floor is "looks like the default StableDiffusion style." Replace with whatever domain you are interested in, I am using art as an example because it is comparatively further down the maturation curve. In any case, the ceiling is high and it still takes effort to reach, but the bar is raised everywhere.

None of that art represents the individual experience of a person any more. It's all a psychotic averaging. I've seen that art too and I find it disgusting.

I don't see anything people are producing with AI as representing the human spirit. I see it as humans being plugged into a machine pushed to create and create and for what? What's the next step? It's horrific and should be destroyed.

You are twisting my argument. I never said a PERSON using AI doesn't have human spirit. Rather, that in GENERAL, the content generated by AI does not have the subtelty of human expression compared to the human-made stuff. Of course, the person that lost their voice naturally loses some expression by using an artificially-generated one.

That doesn't mean that they can't express themselves in other ways.

Come on, these counterarguments are too easy to refute...

But is it? It's fancier clip art, no?

It screams "I rushed this out, I'm probably regurgitating something I just learned".

I rather a dorky stock photo than some nonsense AI image puking out some combination of "cyber", "tech", "hacker", and "circuit".

It's unserious at best, scammy at its worst.

And if it is about art, you should be showing art.

In this case, it's not really entrenchment, because there are viable alternatives.

What used to just be an unsplash image that I never gave any thought to is now a serious detractor that can often overshadow the content (for me)

I’ve clicked out of articles and videos many times because of the AI art. I agree with OP that it feels like it’s washing out a lot of individuality at the moment.

The American slop factory is the predominant cultural idiom and like this country’s factory farming is now an entire automated machinery for mass producing and force feeding everyone poison. I’m hoping some subset of countries will go AI art Galapagos to preserve a trace of our humanity and aspire to something beyond the median of a Google image search.