Fuck AI

It's just a style it tries to emulate, with the typical ChatGPT issues (and the telltale sign of the line texturing) instead of human errors.

The greater issue is, that it creates a standard, where everything needs to be custom made for an occasion, even if they're just low-effort shitposts. You can't use barely edited wojaks for a comic, you need to ask the robot to draw it in a quasi-Ghibli style. You can't use video game music for a funny video, you need to ask SunoAI to create the music for it. You can't chop-and-sample a voiceline together for a source filmmaker feature, you need to use the voice stealing robot to sound like The Heavy instead. To paraphrase a villain out of context: "When everything is special, nothing is."

If anything, genAI showed me that it's not the artists, but the consumers, that are the biggest elitists. They don't want to be amused by "bad art", they want to be amazed by things that are near indistinguishable from reality. On Facebook, I even saw boomers who said that the AI that only needed prompts to operate are better than real artists, because the end result is more "photorealistic". Likewise it's not highly trained jazz musicians that believe pop-stars should be replaced by AI, but people who never picked up an instrument and like what others said to them to be "virtuoso" thing, which they expect the robot will play to them. Sure, you find the odd, now Trump-voting metal band using the AI for cover art and music video, and the ex-artist who is dissing Ghibli for "not looking like a photograph", but it's usually the consumers that are clueless about the actual art process that are also expecting everything to be highly technical all the time.