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Before going into the art part of your comment, in curious, why is being lazy an undesirable thing? What constitutes lazy? At which point does one stop "being lazy" and become "just using the available tools"? Is writing in a computer and then printing it just laziness as opposed to writing it by hand? What if instead of using a pencil I use a raw graphite piece? Is using a pencil lazy? Or is it something else we're criticising here? Are we mad at the lack of creative effort? How effortless can something be before it becomes worthless?
If saying it's "lazy" really hurts you that much then sorry. My point is that, and your example is actually perfect, if I stencil or photoshop 1, 2 maybe 3 into a single art at the least I have put time and effort into it. There's intent behind it and let's say hypothetically I then went around saying hey, look at my effort and what I created initially you can see the inspiration assuming proper credit is given. If I then go and try to sell it or take full credit then EVERYONE knows it's source and can scrutinize it since now money and/or reputation is involved.
Now go to AI all LLM bar none are unethical or at least dubious in nature when it comes to what I described due to its black box like behavior. Now tell me as a layman making the millionth Ghibli "art" it does two things. Normalize and dilute the original and then commodify and create extremely stringent rules on sourcing without AI. Basically like how deepfakes and the likes are, which is definitely another VERY inexcusable and utterly garbage side effect. And for high visibility stuff like Ghibli, at least you know what's up but the silent and even more painful side is the damage done on the smaller scale artists as AI "artists" flood the market without a care to make a quick buck. Collages, Photoshop and the likes exist for those less artistically gifted (I can't draw either btw) that still left a semblance of human effort but even that is now gone.
So no it doesn't matter the materialistic nature (graphite vs digital), it is the human side of it, the intent. If you tell me that that's not what I consider lazy or more kindly, opportunistic and only that then tell me what's been good so far. For every 1 break through in health or astronomy for the greater good, there are 10x or more number of societal issues that crop up due to it as we continue to feel the pain with no solution in sight.
Assuming you actually read and understand what I say and not just not pick words that might feel too blunt to you, tell me about your art part of my comment.