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The difference with AI art is that it's not a byproduct of a moneymaking venture, it's the product itself and it doesn't get made unless someone prompts a generator to make something. Not saying the slop being generated for ads isn't widespread, just that marketing slop existed way before AI art did. If the general population didn't respond to AI art well, it wouldn't be in ads (or at least not the ones targeted widely) because it wouldn't make enough money to be worthwhile.
I don't like AI art, but I also don't want to frame it as a big conspiracy. It removes friction that artists used to benefit from, and the output is something most people are at worst neutral to (for now). Granted, that friction was removed by stealing hundreds of billions of dollars from artists to train the models, but your average consumer doesn't care about that at all.