The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast

I feel like I see this comment fairly often these days, but nonetheless, perhaps we need to keep making it - the AI generated image there is so poor, and so off-putting. Does anyone like them? I am turned off whenever I see someone has used one on a post, with very few exceptions.

Is it just me? Why are people using them? I feel like objectively they look like fake garbage, but obviously that must be my subjective biases, because people keep using them.

That picture doesn't even have anything to do with the contents of the post either.

Reminds me of the image attached to Karpathy's (one of the founding members of openAI) twitter post on founding an education AI lab:

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1813263734707790301

I just don't understand how he didn't take 10 seconds to review the image before attaching it. If the image is emblematic of the power of AI, I wouldn't have a lot of faith in the aforementioned company.

If you're going to use GenAI (stable diffusion, flux) to generate an image, at least take the time to learn some basic photobashing skills, inpainting, etc.