The big issue with AI is that it makes the illusion of said detail, but it's all actually shallow and meaningless. You can make something pleasing to the eye at the times, but we are ushering yet another renewal of the modern artistic era which is "look how much of this seemingly hard thing we pooped out, therefore it must be good and meaningful!", rather than actually valuing deep and thought out media, 'flashy' is all we're told we need to care about.

It reminds me of all the clip art (that is, generic illustrations that you would buy by the sheet and literally clip and stick on your design) that low-budget ad agencies or small businesses used to mimic the eye-catching graphics of much more expensive ad campaigns. It has very little cultural impact and it's transparently commercial, even more so than the magazine ads or illustrations that people are nostalgic for now.

[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Clip art is actually kind of the perfect analogy. Yeah you can make very readily make a few eye catching things, and that's about the limit.

Without an unfathomable amount of human input, you're not going to make many engaging pieces of art with clip art, same goes for AI.