agreed. in the case of AI art, there are some legitimate artists out there (Rob Sheridan comes to mind) who are making wonderful use of AI image generation tools and incorporating it into their artwork and it's SO cool.
it's a shame that so far the loudest people touting AI are the annoying "bro buy my latest shitcoin" techbros.
I want to capture the thing I'm looking at. Art is an attempt to convey personal experience to another person with an unknowable other experience. Having the basis of art be other people's art without at least personal control of the end composition is just all backwards. Not to mention that's not a camera, it's literally a different thing. These people get me so flustered