There's a difference between a 2000's character brute-forced through millions of advertising dollars to sell ringtones to children, and whatever the hell is happening in the https://www.meta.ai/ Discover feed.

One aspect about modern generative AI that has surprised me is that it should have resulted in a new age of creatively surreal shitposts, but instead we have people Ghiblifying themselves and pictures of Trump eating tacos.

Surreal shitposting you say?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE3EhrZyCVd/

Neuralviz is definitely surreal but I wouldn’t call it shitposting. It’s hand-written satire scripts with gen-ai video (honestly quite well done if you go through a bunch of them).

Why would you expect the average person to have exceptional taste to produce things you like? Go listen to a random Spotify track, you probably won't like that either. Art still needs to be curated and given some direction. Metas random AI feed created by the average FB user is indicative of nothing.