This touches on a big reason why it's so hard for me to get on board with generative AI. The hype around it is pretty much the same as the hype I saw with NFTs, complete with a community lacking any awareness of just how uninteresting, if not downright bad, their "art" was. We went from bad pixel art to people making some lame picture of two people holding hands in a foggy cyberpunk setting.

The hands aren't the problem. There, I said it. The hands were never a big deal, just the most visible symptom of the actual problem.

The problem is that AI art sucks and these people are too self-deluded to realize that because they want to believe that they have a shot at making that coveted internet money.

Otherwise, honestly, the tech behind AI art is actually pretty fascinating, it's just that the community is absolutely the worst.